July 14, 2023 a thought for today, Music is the handmaid of divinity. Latin Proverb
The weather is more like July today. The AC is working steadily this morning. I haven’t been outside but as I look out the window I can tell it is on the warm side.
Yesterday was a busy day here, Thursdays usually are but even more so yesterday. We had a nurse here for Bob after I got home from printing at the church. Then he had an afternoon appointment. After he and Lowell left, I had a visit from a good friend. It looks like Bob will be starting chemo treatment next week. As all of that was going on, I had the usual laundry load to get done.
I need to spend some time in the kitchen this afternoon with the frig and dishwasher. And finishing the laundry before it is time for dinner prep.
The word for today is advance. The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance, Aeschylus. He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years, Thomas Carlyle. Error is discipline through which we advance. William Ellery Channing. Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. Virgil. Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. Walt Whitman. To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. Quintilian. By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. Victor Hugo. Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. William Gilmore Simms. There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. Thomas Reid
This is another article from a writer that I keep up with. His stories are light and food for thought. The article is about the attention to the Christopher Columbus statute vs. “our waterworks that changed the world”. The article was about ideas for solving the problem of replacing the statue as this description was written “when last we saw the bronze icon, it was 2020 and he was lying face-up in the bed of a truck, a deposed titan on his way to exile for 500-year-old human rights violations”. According to the article the problems now are where to find a home for the statue and what to put in its place in front of city hall.....the author’s suggestion for what to put in its place was to plant a tree there. Then his thinking changed to the possibility of water as a replacement. He related some of the problems that may compare in temperament to the problems with the statue of Christopher Columbus and how they were solved. One of the problems was “growing cities that struggled with how to handle sewage”. Then there was the problem of typhoid fever presumably contracted from contamination. When the contamination was at its worst clean water was “shipped” to Columbus schools. These problems and probably others in the early days were “motivators”, in 1908, to build “sophisticated water and wastewater treatment systems”. These types of systems were already in use in other places but Columbus’ were constructed on a large scale....“The Great Columbus Experiment of 1908”. It was once called the “moon landing of its day." So, with a water fountain in place of the Columbus statue and then what may come is a possible question of “what’s with all the aquatic features” there would be a healthy story to tell.
Pizza night has rolled around again.
Joy
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