September 6, 2023 a thought for today, When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. Arapaho Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “my choice.” I like the difference in textures in this image. And the textures along with the flowers peeking through the wooden fence. 

I have the bulletin done. Somehow I didn’t receive the title to the sermon so I left that blank. I don’t think there will be too much of a problem with that though. I have to do things as time permits, its fitting my time with other folks time. 

The second upload for yesterday was “this is useful.” This baby monitor has another use...keeping an eye on an ill person that may be out of sight. 

The house is an “open” door situation right now with people coming to check on Bob. So I get started with one thing and put it on a back burner to focus on something different for a few minutes then back to the “back burner.” Things are changing quickly, more so than I
am accustomed to. I have a new set of lessons and experiences to grow with. It is taking some getting use to though.

A third upload for yesterday is “bubbles.” This is an image I generated a while back of my grandson making bubbles with the grandpa. 

The weather is gorgeous. I would, at another time, go out looking for photo opportunities. 

My first upload for today in “from down low.” I put the camera on a timer and placed it under the porch swing. 

The word today is forgive.  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato.  He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake. Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. Jean de la Bruyere.  I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher.  The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great. Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. Laurence Sterne. Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. Euripides. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice, Abraham Lincoln.

The second upload for today is “my choice”. I was sitting in the car this morning and caught sight of the delicate leaves on this coffee tree with the blue sky and white clouds in the background.  

Here’s a little bit of another of the historic houses in Columbus. It’s about the  'The House That Saved Ohio.' It was “second only to the new Statehouse as a grand example of Greek Revival architecture.” A man named Alfred Kelly was born in Connecticut in 1789. His family had been in American since the 1600s. They moved around a lot. One of the six sons moved west to a place called Cleaveland after a man named Moses Cleaveland. One of his brothers’ joined him. They made friends and one of them made mayor of Cleveland. In 1814 he moved to the capital of Ohio, then Chillicothe as a state representative. He traveled back and forth the Cleveland and Chillicothe. He married and had eleven children. They then decided to move to Columbus full time. They purchased 18 acres on East Broad Street, at that time, “way out in the country.” There was a “wetland” on the property that some called a swamp. He put down hundreds of feet of drainage tile and built a brick sewer to catch water that went to the springs that fed a creek that became Spring Street. Once the land was dried out he build a house of Ohio grey sandstone. It was 65 feet “on a side” and four stories tall. There was a steep parapet above columns. Ten columns in all, “each from a single stone,” one of the best examples of classical revival architecture in America.”  Many people called it “Kelley’s Folly.”Eventually in his occupation he became the “Father of Ohio’s Banking System and the Father of Ohio’s Canal System. Finances suffered a decline in the depression of 1837 and he “pledged his house as collateral to insure payment of the state’s debt. It came to be called “The House that Saved Ohio.” According to the article the family lived there until 1906. Then the house was “sold to the local Roman Catholic Diocese, which used it as the Cathedral School until 1963. Then new uses were proposed. The diocese offered the house to anyone who could move it.” Money was needed to move the house and it was brought down stone for stone which was stored in Wolfe Park. In 1966 the stones were moved to the Fairgrounds. In 1971 they were taken to the Hale Farm near Cleveland. There have been efforts to “save the house”. The original house was replaced by the Christopher Inn.

We are having either beer batter fish or a frozen chicken dinner meal tonight. 

Joy