October 30, 2023 a thought for today, What is new is esteemed, but what is in every day use ceases to afford interest. Latin Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was called “dotty.” As I went into church, I found my image for today. The pew buddy behind me had on this bright shirt full of red dots. Perfect.

We have recently met a preacher, new to our pulpit ..... I have a divided way of thinking about him .... one part of me feels a “tent preacher” kind of thing which is uncomfortable....on the other hand there is a bit of magic....he can tell a story of a recent (fresh) experience about himself or another in todays world and open a bible, then  read a specific scripture that fits like a glove. That’s the part I find intriguing. This week’s message led to my thinking of one particular part of my life right now and how I should work on making some adjustments (another besides the loss of my son). This subject has been a part of my life since I was a child and needs a bit of attention through our shared September Song. 

My second upload was “tamarack.” This group I belong to is formed in Canada where I think there are lots of tamarack trees (relatives are our only deciduous conifer. It sheds all its needles every autumn. The needles are only about an inch long. In the spring they are bright golden-yellow-green). But here in Ohio that style is limited so I did the best I could. 

Once upon a time I wanted nothing to do with “new technology.” That was around the time my kids were in their teens and were playing with something called Texas Instrument and wanted me to join them. My reply was “no thanks.” Now I can’t do without them. A computer, a cell phone, a tablet and virtual and visual visits on my phone or tablet. I can talk to and see four of my great grandchildren who live in other states and my two here a few miles away. My visits are sporadic and only last a few minutes. But I get to see their beautiful faces and hear their excitement of life. I said a few minutes of contact meaning, I have inherited a trend from an aunt....she was a bit shy of the telephone and wouldn’t stay on it more than a few minutes at a time. I also understand that it is normal for young attention spans to be not very long and they have other important events going on in their daily lives that need their undivided attention. I also don’t want to be known as the great grandma who interrupts. Just a quick minute to reach out and touch and to make memories even short ones. I had the pleasure of speaking to five of the six yesterday. One of the six is a teen and has a busy life, you know the kind we all have/had as teens.  

The first upload for today is “sunlight.” This one is from the archives since today is heavily overcast and gray. 

The word today is change.  The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change, Thomas Carlyle. Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots, Victor Hugo. What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits, Johann von Goethe.   Even God cannot change the past, Agathon.  No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope, Thomas Carlyle.  The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them, Confucius.  We ought not to be overanxious to encourage innovation, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood, Charles Caleb Colton. Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments, Plato.  Habits change into character, Ovid.  

The second upload is another from my archives and is another of the “my choice” images. This was taken when I was one of the photographers for the Humane Society here in Ohio. This kitten wanted out very badly. 

Three things brought this article to my attention a physician using his time and money to take on a large remodeling project, one of many as I understand it. An old building being refreshed instead of demolished or forgotten. And the third point, more renewal in Franklinton. There is a physician in our community who has recently bought and renovated an old Kroger warehouse in the Franklinton area. Some have called it a modern castle. It is an “art-filled”home. When it was a warehouse it had no windows, no HVAC and two overhead garage doors. This physician has renovated other properties in Columbus. When he saw this building available in this “up-and-coming are he began imagining what he could do with it.  Once he started beauty began to grow into “a funky, art-filled, one-of-a-kind, urban dwelling.” It turned out he got married and of them worked together on this project. This home takes up three lots on the city block. One place in the article is it described as a “concrete box containing two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, two garages.” Added to those areas in the structure is a laundry room, an art studio and a storage room. There are only two doors on the inside of the building, the bathroom and the storage room. On the outside there is a Zen garden with sculptures. He wanted to keep the warehouse feel so the kept the block walls and planned for the electric and plumbing to be in the open. Along with the warehouse feel he wanted to have an art gallery, studio and courtyard along with a front porch. One of the countertops was placed on the “old grain store cabinet base from an antique market.” The inside is mostly white an off-white so that is it now too hard on the eye. They want to show art but “not be art.” There was a careful choice of lighting using chandeliers and track lighting for the artwork and fluorescents that are rarely turned on. The carpeting is thick and “absorbs sound”. Some of the furniture is “repurposed furniture from either junk stores or antique malls.” The art studio is a place for them to paint, record music and allows time for work on photography. A unique point is that the upper floor is designed to feel like it is “still a part of the main floor.” Here there is floor o ceiling art displayed. After livinging in the beautiful building and enjoying it the couple decided to move out of state and chose to sale the converted warehouse. It sold within a week of going on the market.

I am making tuna casserole for dinner and for the freezer for future quick meals. 

Joy                                                 the poor safety pole met its match