June 12, 2023 a thought for today, Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue. African Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “everyday objects in black and white”. I sometimes use an old image and use Photoshop to change it to black and white. Other time I use the setting on my Sony camera for black and white shots. This image was using the setting in the camera. 

This day is much different than that of my last letter.....this one is chilly and damp. It is the amazing saga of ups and downs in Ohio weather, interesting, educational and special. A couple of days last week I had the windows open then the AC was turned on, today I have the furnace back on. It rained during the night and looks like there is more to come. 

It also looks like it is going to be a one of those slow, “time dragging” kind of day. I did manage to get the first part of the bulletin done as well as a little research I have been meaning to do....adding to my “bank of knowledge” for  later perusal. 

My second upload for yesterday was taken a few years back....it is an old, very old, and abandoned warehouse in the downtown area. The textures, color hues and shapes make it, in my opinion, and interesting image, let alone it’s historical history and presence.

I have a couple of minor house hold tasks to get out of the way. I have been planning to make a double batch of home made noodles to freeze for later meals of beef and noodles and tuna casserole but I’m not in the mood to do that today. Time wise this would be a good day for that but energy wise not so much, could be the drag of the dreary weather coloring the mood. 

My first upload for today is “a single tree”. In our neighborhood finding a “single” tree is not an easy task. We have either the park which is a tiny forest and all of the tree in our yards. 

The word for today is reality. When we are unhurried and wise we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality, Henry David Thoreau. Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu.  Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Charles Lamb.  We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch.  If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it, Voltaire.  Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question, Lao Tzu. The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten, Victor Hugo.  It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright, Benjamin Franklin.  The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own, Heraclitus.  

My second upload for today is pulled from my archives. We saved this drip coffee maker from old family treasures held over from the past. I used it a while back for a “cup of coffee” image in an assigned upload.

It’s going to be the extreme modern next to an architectural design of an earlier history style. I should be an interesting contrast. There are plans for a new seven-story, 185 unit building to be built in Franklinton on West Broad Street right next to the Holy Family Catholic Church. It will be a mixed use building with ground floor space for commercial space. There will be town houses along the back. There will be internal parking. Normally the architect plans trees at the front of the building but due to a “duct bank” under the sidewalk that won’t happen with this site. When the plans were being discussed, it was decided that if trees couldn’t be planted in front an “alternative landscaping that city staff would then sign off on” would be considered. The construction of the building is proposed to start in September. 

I think we are having hamburgers and some kind of air fired potatoes for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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