November 13, 2023 a thought for today, How you run your life, that's how your clock will run. Yiddish Proverb

The first upload for the 121th were “petals.” This was a part of one arrangement of an altar flower at church yesterday. 

The second upload for yesterday was “bare feet.” My sister was my model for this one.

The last upload for yesterday was “energy.” It feels to me like there is a lot of energy in this field of towers and cables. 

Life on this day. It has been a typical Monday so far. The bulletin is done up to the point of Tom’s information and final formatting. I still have the envelopes to do and the insert with the anthem lyrics. I even had time to get just a bit started on the up coming newsletter. As I was working on those, I multitasked by uploading the streaming of Sundays service to facebook. 

Today is a much brighter day. The sun is bright and the temperature is almost enjoyable, more like the kind of autumn day I appreciate. I haven’t had much time to be out enjoying it though. I had quite a todo list generated for today, more than I am going to accomplish in one day. Sweet Pea and I did get out for a short time. We had three photo a day shots that required some outside attention so we went on a photo safari in the neighborhood. At some point someone in the neighborhood may be alarmed that someone is going around with a camera and stopping now and then along the way. I hope not....I am not up to “no good” just enjoying the many things there are to observe and capture for “posterity”. 

One of the uploads for today is “coins”. I took several shots of coins and found that I like the format of this one that I captured while I was in my car waiting for a light to change. 

I didn’t have a lot of luck with my facetime visits this week end. I think all three of my “contact points” were enjoying whatever memories they were making, that in itself makes me happy. I will try again next weekend to catch a few moments of their beautiful faces. 

This is one of the least busy weeks at church so I hope to make some good input in the newsletter. That will make next week a little less busy. 

Another upload for today is “older”. In this image I was trying to compare the taller tree with the smaller one beside it indicating the “older” and larger tree. 

The word for today is down.  Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln.  Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson.  From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. Napoleon Bonaparte.  Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. King Solomon. The way up and the way down are one and the same. Heraclitus.  The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. George Eliot.  How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. William Wordsworth. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. Thomas Huxley. 

The third upload for today is “circles”. I go by this graffiti design often and remembered the string of circles through out the full design on the side of a building. 

A story for today. I don’t think I would ever have had the desire to try a sport like this but I know there are others who would. I thought it should be interesting to share the story since this climbing wall is in our neighborhood. One of my sons use to practice rappeling, a close sport to this I think. It is said to be the “First Urban Via Errata in the U.S. at Quarry Trails Metro Park.” This is a review of one persons’ use of this 100-plus-foot cliff. It is a “fixed rock-climbing route” and is described as an “alpine adventure common in the Rockies and the Alps but unique in an urban setting.” The name is an Italian phrase “Via Ferrata”  meaning “iron way”. The name, in this case, indicates the use of  “ladders, cables and rungs permanently affixed to rock faces as climbing aids.” This one in Columbus is built with rebar rungs, safety cable, a suspension bridge 105 feet in the air and offers an approximately 50-foot vertical climb. When the climbers first saw the wall at the quarry, they started planning this unique wall for us in Columbus. A group of energetic “newbies” decided to test it. The “climb” starts with a short climb then a shot descent then becomes a “mostly horizontal traverse” of the wall. The view is supposed to be fantastic. There are sites to see like marine fossils embedded in limestone from hundreds of millions ago. One of the people on the test “expedition” said that the path came to a place where there was a drop of several feet with  a “very slight overhang at its start.” In case of any kind of accident there are Metro Park staff on the site with backpacks of basic first aid supplies. As the climb goes on there is a second-obstacle....a 90-foot suspension bridge. The “foot track” on the bridge is only a “few inches wide”. Next comes a 54-foot staircase leading to the top of the cliff.  At last there is “a pleasant walk on a paved path back to the parking lot”. Someone suggested that there should be a zip line back to the parking lot. 

It’s going to be baked fish and lumpia for dinner for me tonight. 

Joy

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