October 18, 2023 a thought for today, In vain does a man possess property if he makes no use of it. Latin Proverb

The first upload was “floral.”  This is another from my archives but at the moment I don’t have any blooming flowers in the garden and haven’t visited a flower shop in a while. 

Food pantry yesterday was very busy and almost constant motion. We had about 37 families. Today it seems like we are going to be slower.

Since I had the bulletin done yesterday and will be going with Lowell tomorrow to take my car in for some maintenance. I decided to print the bulletin today instead of Thursday as I normally do. I had Sue drop me off here at the church an hour earlier than I usually get here for pantry. I got it done in less than an hour and all distributed then to pantry early enough to help set up. 

The second upload for yesterday was “my choice.” This is one of the plants from my house plant garden. This weeping fig (Ficus Benjamina) has added some height since I brought them in from the house plant  vacation spot on the back porch. 

The weather is cooler but  not rainy as they had predicted. 

I still have my photos a day to find and process.  

I need to go through the freezer since tomorrow is refuge pick up. I am still trying to get the freezers and refrigerator cleared out. I have most of the food I had put aside for Bob cleared out. He wasn't eating to well for some time and I kept ordering food hoping he would eat. 

The first upload for today is “pop of color”. These flowers were by the altar when we had the most current wedding at the church. 

The word for today is art. Patience is the art of hoping Luc de Clapiers.  All art is but imitation of nature, Lucius Annaeus Seneca. No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist, Ludwig van Beethoven. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance, Aristotle. This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau.  Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan Swift. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman. A picture is a poem without words. Horace.  The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much, William Hazlitt.  Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room, Jonathan Swift.  By the work one knows the workman, Jean de La Fontaine.  Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Life is short, the art long. Hippocrates. In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci. Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient, Johann von Goethe.  

The second upload for today is “my choice”. This is another from my archives. I picked it because I like the juxtaposition of the roofs and the other shapes and textures in the image. 

This article is a story of more growth in Columbus with a bit of a twist. The “twist” is new construction of development around and will include an already existing mobile home park. It is in a planning stage for an area of Avery and Rings Roads. The developer is working with the Dublin Planning and Zoning Commission on this plan. There will be a “mix of town homes, apartments, single family homes, and an area of “mixed-use commercial.” The land that is proposed for this development includes the mobile homes for senior citizens. There are plans to keep it in tact. For that part of the area they plan on “using open space buffers and compatible adjoining density.” There was a meeting earlier in October for the residents of the mobile home park and others near by to voice their opinions. There were a few negative views like traffic issues and some like concerns about the “park’s rural character.” So it looks like it may take some further planning. I like the idea that they were planning to leave a well established park intact along with new and interesting additions. We’ll see where that goes. 

I think I will have Tilapia and lumpias tonight for dinner. 

Joy 

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