November 21, 2023 a thought for today, Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Romanian Proverb

 

The first upload for yesterday was “sunset/sunrise”. I am not up early enough usually to get a good shot of a sunrise and in bed too early to get a good sunset. I happened to be up in time yesterday to snap this one. 

The nest upload yesterday was “a goal”. My goal is to get the other
crochet snowballs that I completed last year starched. I put them in storage until I was ready to use them. I fill them with a balloon, roll them in a starch solution, hang them to dry. Once they are dry, I burst the balloon and voila. 

The next upload for yesterday was “knife”. This one of Bob’s knives. He liked it because it was “fancy”. It was only for a collection of items that seemed a bit different from the ordinary. This was the only knife in the collection. 

I had a fourth upload for yesterday, its title is “door or door knob”. This is the only glass door knob in my house. When we moved in over sixty years ago all of the knobs were glass. 

Life today. This is not one of the beautiful sunny latter days of autumn...it is one of the rainy damp overcast days telling us the more somber days of winter are on the way. Most of the leaves are off the trees and are on the ground, in the street gutters or somewhere making compost. It feels like a season to begin snuggling and reflecting for a time of reflections until spring sneaks back in the time of renewal and rebirth.

I got the rest of the information to finish the bulletin. I got it in my email shortly before I got ready for food pantry. I did have time to finish the input. I left the formatting part for tomorrow. I hope to be able to send it out for review and then finish the newsletter. I also got the anthem lyric sheet typed and the envelopes printed before I left.  

The first upload for today is “arches”. I couldn’t think of a better place than my church where I would find many arches. And to add to it there are so many other beautiful architectural feature.   

We were buzzzy at pantry to day. We had forty-two families. Gail and I had a little bit of a bump when three different clients could speak NO English and were out of the zip codes that we service. It took longer than with the other folks to get them signed in but we made it. For me it makes life all the more interesting. 

I was able to get two of my photo a day photos at church today, the other one is of a place on my garage that needs some attention, a lot of attention. 

The second upload for today it “sugar”. Some times I am lucky and thing present themselves readily for my photo images of the day. This is one of those, our sugar and cream accessories for the coffee we share. 

The word today is gratitude. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop.  The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is, Nigerian. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts, Henri Frederic Amiel. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others, Cicero.  To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it, Benjamin Franklin.  If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough, Meister Eckhart.  It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer, Charlotte Brontë.  For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends, Ralph Emerson. Gratitude bestows reverence .....changing forever how we experience life and the world, John Milton.  Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart, Henry Clay. No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here, John Greenleaf Whittier. The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart, Plutarch. 

The third photo assignment for upload today is titled “ugly”. This is a place under the garage door that needs some repair.  

Here’s a story about a mystery building in Columbus. This was mentioned on the Columbus Neighborhood PBS show on Thursday evenings. The article opens with mentioning a street near downtown that is a “bit desolate”. It goes to explain that there are several blocks with warehouse buildings and half-empty parking lots. But there is one building that looks sort of like an apartment or office building .... maybe just a little odd. It has a “communication tower with all the satellite dishes on it and all the windows on the building are all blacked out.” There are security cameras and it seems no people. The author wanted to learn more about it. A search of state and county records showed one of the “largest wireless carriers in the country, Verizon.” This fact couldn’t be verified any further at that point. The building is part of a wireless network.  A professor at The Ohio State University Professor said “the building is a mobile technology switching office, which houses the technology that routes our calls.” It is noted that Columbus has many of these “switching offices” for to cover the whole city. Where our cell phones are in use, an electrical signal is sent from the phone antenna to a cell tower antenna. Then to a “switching office” where it is routed to the destination or another switching center across the country then to another phone. The technology at the “mystery building” is part of this connection service. The article further notes that the looks of the building is “likely a security issue....building designers wanted it to blend in and not draw attention to itself.” 

I think we will have hamburgers and shoestring potato for dinner. 

Joy

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