Wednesday, September 6, 2023

 September 4, 2023 a thought for today, Learning is better than house and land. Chinese Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “street”. This is “on the street where ‘I’ live”. It is a beautiful area of this side of town. It is quiet, neighbors are friendly and look out for each other. 

Some good things come with the not so good. In our journey with Bob we are learning painful and everlasting lessons. But along with that, yesterday we had a ray of sunshine. My daughter came home to see her brother. There were tears, of both kind, and hugs like a blanket of warmth. She and I have been at odds for a while. May a door have opened. 

I have the bulletin started. I had the back side done before I realized we have changed speakers for this week so that caused a little bit of a hitch in my over all motion to the finish. 

The second upload for yesterday was one I don’t really care for...a selfie. The title is “it’s me”. It is...with messy hair and all. 

Sue is visiting with the twins again today. School has started for them but, this being a holiday, they are home, a good time for a visit. 

Rebecca is here helping with keeping Bob quite and comfortable. We are in separate parts of the house so we are “doing our own things”. 

For some reason, the weather feels more fall-like to me today. The air is a little cooler, the sky and clouds just feel autumn-ish. The wind chimes are on the quiet side this morning....almost no breeze although enough to see the flag wave now and then. 

The first upload for today was “something beautiful”. This is from the archives and, I think, is beautiful.

A word for today is fame.  Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds, Socrates. Spring is a natural resurrection, an experience in immortality, Henry David Thoreau. Fame is the thirst of youth. Lord (George Gordon) Byron. Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow, Marcus Tullius  Cicero. Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid, Francis Bacon. How vain, without the merit, is the name, Homer. Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost, Arthur Schopenhauer.  Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water, Chinese Proverbs.  Even the best things are not equal to their fame, Henry David Thoreau. May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland, Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro. Acquaintance lessens fame, Claudius. All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly, Michel de Montaigne.  I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one, Cato The Elder. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star, William Blake. What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely, Johann von Goethe. The desire for fame is the last weakness wise men put off, Tacitus. 

The second upload is one of the friends of my grandchildren when they played soft ball and is one of the “my choice” uploads.. 

This is another story along with others I have shared recently about the growth and renewal of one of the oldest parts of our city...Franklinton. There is a place in Franklinton called the Idea Foundry at 421 W. State St. This is their story. The article opened with a quote from Ferris Bueller: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” The Idea Foundry began it’s life fifteen years ago. In 2008 an idea occurred to its founder that since there were no dedicated spaces easy to find that offered things like 3D printers and a “bottleneck to taking an idea out of your head and holding it in your hand.” His idea was a “workshop with some tools and some talented people to be your workshop partners.” He played with his idea beginning in a small garage eventually moving to a 10,000 square foot space which eventually ran out of space to keep things growing. Someone heard of the project and suggested a 65,00 square foot building on State Street. People wanted to rent “studio space and start businesses there.” There was some fund-raising so that they could buy the space rather than rent knowing that Franklinton was a growing and on the edge of becoming a thriving community. There was some set backs along the way with the COVID pandemic but they kept going with the building and growing. They are trying to show and help people find their creative “passion.”  This business has come to “include artists, educators and other groups outside their original focus on tech innovation.” Not all the “tenants” keep a normal “business” schedule like Monday through Friday. Some may only use their space “12 times a month.” Some come for other events in the area and stop by for a “30 minute engrave-your-own-pint-glass class” rather than a three hour wood shop class, all while on a date or a beer in you hands.  A description of the Idea Foundry is: a place where anyone can explore their urge to make things. Working together, we marry ideas and talents, tools and resources, experience and opportunity into a shared community of making. A place where furniture and sculpture and jewelry and drones and motorcycles and 3D printers and chess boards and video games come to life in the hands of artists, artisans, techies and entrepreneurs.

I think I am going to make chili for dinner. 

Joy 

this is an older photo from my archives ..... still the “orange cone theory”




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