May 31, 2023 a thought for today, A bargain is something you cannot use at a price you cannot resist. Traditional Proverb

This is another day that started out like any other food pantry Wednesday. It begins with the usual (daily) virtual visits and moves onto my agenda for that particular day of the week/month. Within an hour of the virtual visits things had begun to change. I called Bob at the hospital for some information I needed and found that he had other information for me....he is being released to come home today. 

My first upload for yesterday was “my choice”. I like the “architecture” of this light on one of the outside walls of the Ohio State House in downtown Columbus. For me there is a regal feel, a feel of history. 

Bob had the Pet Scan yesterday, moved from Tuesday to Wednesday then back to Tuesday. The problem is localized which is the news I was hoping for. Along with that there were indications of other, less severe medical problems that may have to be addressed. 

I tired to decide whether to continue with plans to be at food pantry but decided I should be here when he gets home. Rebecca or Lowell will be picking him up to bring him home. I don’t know what time he will be getting here but I wouldn’t be able to concentrate if I didn’t stay home. 

My second upload for yesterday was titled “I found....”. I “found” this penny on our old and aged wooden deck. 

On our way home from the hospital the other day Sue stopped to order some mulch for the sides of the lawns. Rather than having it delivered she is picking it up in her car several bags at a time. A few one day and a few the next. Last night Lowell called to tell me he had fifty bags of mulch and was on his way to bring it here. He didn’t know that we were already getting some. So now we will have plenty. I’m afraid I am no longer physically able to participate in that kind of activity....that ship sailed a few years ago. 

After all the other plans for the day I realized this is the last day of the month and I haven’t paid the bills yet. I normally pay them a week earlier than this. So that was the next thing to tick off my growing agenda.

We are having a wonderful spring day. The weather is near perfect. And there is the sound of the wind chimes. 

The first photo upload for today is “I did this good thing....”. I made chocolate chip cookies which is a particularly good thing since I don’t bake much anymore.  

The word for today is pleasure.  Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul, Epicurus.  The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking, Phaedrus.  Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth, William Blake. Variety is the mother of enjoyment, Benjamin Disraeli.  The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain, Aristotle. Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures, Voltaire. The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices, Frederick the Great. Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration, De Witt Clinton.  Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Pleasure is the most real good in this life, Frederick the Great. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other, Jane Austen. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it, Thomas Jefferson.  Amusement to an observing mind is study, Benjamin Disraeli.  That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest, Henry David Thoreau.  Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it, Soren Kierkegaard.  In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures, Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Work is often the father of pleasure, Voltaire. In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls, Honore de Balzac.  Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think, Alexander Pope.

My second upload for today is “my choice”. I particularly like the orange color of the anther of the stamens on this lily.

Apparently they are adorning downtown Columbus with a new hanging art piece. It is named “Current”. It is a hanging sculpture at North High Street and Gay Street. It is made up entirely of twine a “229-foot-long cloudlike sculpture ....78 miles of twine, over 500,000 knots..... nylon fabric that does not snag birds and will be suspended by cables from near by buildings”. It is 126 feet above the ground at the highest and 35 feet above the ground at the lowest. Airplanes will be able to see it and it will be lit at night. It suggests or hints at the current of the Scioto River and other currents as those of electricity. The sculpture is being funded by a one person as the largest private art contribution in Columbus history. The Columbus Art Museum will maintain this permanent collection. It will be taken down only in the winter to “avoid ice accumulation”. It will be “celebrated” at the kick-off of the Columbus Arts Festival, June 9 at 11am on the river front.

It is going to be chicken fries and French fries for dinner. 

Joy

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