August 21, 2023 a thought for today, Better to wear out than rust out. French Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “a hidden gem.” This is a “hidden gem” in my neighbor’s yard. I see it when I park my car and realized it would be the photo for the day. 

Monday.....

I have all the information for the bulletin but I rearranged the “agenda” a bit. I have such a long list for today that it is never going to make it to completion, some will be moved to tomorrow, maybe the next day too. However, I did get a portion of the newsletter completed. I found one of the pieces I like to put in blank spaces on the calendar. So while I had it available I went ahead and put that in front of the bulletin for today. 

I rescued some tiny little statuettes I have for a “fairy garden” and decided to clean them and put them in the new indoor houseplant/hydroponic garden. They were in an old pot that I had put together a couple of years ago. It was overgrown with weeds and the mushrooms and elves were covered and hidden. They would have been thrown out soon. 

The second photo of the day for yesterday was “negative space.” This caught my eye. I don’t know what the object is but it stands out on the otherwise empty portion of the brick wall. 

I am a bit overwhelmed. I had an extra item to do for church that I didn’t know about until I had left on Sunday...I have to download the service to Facebook. I haven’t picked up the memory card yet, my time now days is in increments and scattered with last minute changes along the way. Had I been told about the plan before the service I would have known to wait. The cleaning lady is coming a week early and I have a few things that normally are left out for convince away when she is coming, so that is another item on the list for today. All of that and this is newsletter week which is always a long and convoluted few days. 

The weather had been cooler than normal these last few days but from what I hear on the news it is going to catch up to us today. It is predicted to get to around 90 degrees. 

Oh, I finished that book I told you about a few days ago. It was like the Twlight Zone but there were things to think about beyond the strangeness and in my opinion the writing was superb. I am now reading Deliver Us from Evil by David Baldacci (the same author). 

I had a third upload for yesterday called “watching paint peel.” My garage is in desperate need of some scraping and painting. We are in the process of hiring someone to do it. 

A word for the day conversation. Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Marcus Tullius Cicero. True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison.  There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. Michel de Montaigne. Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. William Hazlitt. Conceit causes more conversation than wit. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton. What is reading, but silent conversation. Charles Lamb. The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation, Michel de Montaigne. Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer, Robert Louis Stevenson.  Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. Thomas Jefferson.  Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts, Thomas Carlyle.  They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper, Marcus Tullius Cicero.  He speaketh not; and yet there lies conversation in his eye, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The first upload for today is “musical.” This is about the only thing I have that is  “musical.” I use to have a keyboard that the twins play with but at some point it became “lost.” 

Here’s more about a fast growing part of the Columbus community....and the earliest part of Columbus. It is growing and changing by leaps and bounds. The article is “More Plans Revealed for ‘Gravity Experience Park’ in Franklinton” in the form of a community gathering space. The space will include pickle ball courts, a stage for concerts, space for food trucks and more. Right now there is a half-acre gravel lot at McDowell and State Street next to the Idea Foundry and across from the Gravity development. It will be a privately-run park but open to the public. There will be more modern art in the space, a sculptured tree filled with LED illuminated stained glass birds along with other art pieces and a piece by a “world-renowned muralist.” There will be shaded seating, picnic tables and fire pits. The pickle ball courts will be turned into an outdoor skating rink in the wintertime. The plan is to open the park in October. 

The second photo of the day for today is another of the “my choice” uploads. I often search through my archives and find things I have forgotten that I had taken. This is one of those. Last year I had a “good crop” of Iris. I used another of them for one of the uploads a few days ago. 

I think it is going to be creamed beef on toast for dinner. 

Joy

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