November 5, 2023 a thought for today, It's not enough to know how to ride -- one must also know how to fall. Mexican Proverb
First upload for yesterday was “brave.” This is my father’s fire department uniform hat. He was a firefighter for nearly twenty years as a paramedic, as a firefighter and as a lieutenant. Firefighting is a dangerous occupation and the men and women wearing the uniform are brave souls.
car. Notice on the seat is one of Sweet Peas toys that we take along to keep her company on her frequent car rides for pleasure and sniffing the air for all sorts of new smells.
Life today: The sermon was good this morning and we sang a beautiful anthem, “A Thanksgiving Garden.” We have two college student music majors joining our choir for a few months. They make our sound much richer, and it is nice to have their view of music and life in general among us.
When I got home from church, I started on my Sunday computer tasks including printing the new yearly calendar that I do for my family every year. I was just beginning the downloading of my three photo a day shots when Tami, Andy and Abe (boston bull terrier four month old puppy) came to visit. I think the pup was good for Sweet Peas mood at least for an hour or so. She hasn’t seemed so “motivated” since she lost her pal and my son, Bob. It was a good visit all the way around. All of the family bonding was good for all of us.
I am going to have to put a few things that were on my todo list for today on the back burner. That is ok because Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest and refresh and renewal.
Sue has some health tests coming up. Tuesday is voting day and Wednesday Lowell has arranged for the annual furnace checkup. I have no evening meetings this week so it will be a pretty relaxed week.
My first upload for today is “multicoloured.” I found that the best image with multiple colors that I was close to today was one of the stained glass windows.
Another upload for today is “penny for Guy.” I learned that “In Sussex there were rituals around Guy Fawkes Night each year on 5th November are among a few traditions. Children spent their holiday making an effigy of Guy Fawkes ,while passers-by were accosted with ‘Penny for the Guy?’. The money that was collected was spent on fireworks and the ‘guy’ was burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks”
The word for today is criticism. Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot. It is much easier to be critical than to be correct, Benjamin Disraeli. Fix the problem, not the blame, Japanese Proverbs. The dread of criticism is the death of genius, William Gilmore Simms. You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, when you do not rightly understand, Leonardo da Vinci. Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense, Samuel Johnson. Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it, Tacitus. A louse in the locks of literature, Alfred Lord Tennyson. The pleasure of criticism deprives us of that of being deeply moved by beautiful things, Jean de La Bruyère. Don’t criticize them they are just what we would be under similar circumstances, Abraham Lincoln. A sneer is the weapon of the weak, James Russell Lowell There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, Say nothing, and Be nothing, Aristotle. Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and rootpuller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Critics are those who have failed in literature and art, Benjamin Disraeli. Critics are already made, Lord (George Gordon) Byron. They condemn what they do not understand, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Even the lion has to defend himself against flies, Proverbs.
The last upload for today is “dots/dashes/diagonal”. This image captures my eye with how the one pole seems to hold up the other pole at a diagonal.
The Article: I think it’s nice when someone comes up with ideas to use spaces that become vacant and abandoned even parking spaces. That’s what I was thinking when I picked this article and found that there was more parking information than just that. I was interested in the first sentence, “The Columbus Architectural Studio have planned over 10,000 new structured parking spaces in downtown Columbus which allows for a greater walkable community and tighter urban fabric.” There was a parking ordnance in Columbus in 1923 the made a rule that there would be a minimum number of off street parking in new apartment buildings. According to the article it was the first of its kind in the country. Parking “rules” differ all around the world according to the requirements of each place. I found in the article that some “existing building fabric was razed” for inexpensive parking. Workers would have to walk to and from his surface area parking lot. It went on to relate that our city was “only used during working hours” meaning that the parking lots were empty the rest of the time. The article went on to figure the expense by using space required for a car and the cost to construct the lot. Also used in the estimation was the number of employees that would use the lot. So according to the article, a surface lot would cost about $3K and a multi story parking garage would cost $15K. With downtown growth the city has become mor “dense.” Parking has had to be considered by if it was going to be used the whole day. Also something to be mindful of for the future is how transportation will change as time goes by.
Chili and French bread from the freezer for dinner.
Joy
PS Lowell and Rebecca stopped by for a visit later in the after noon just as I was finishing this letter......what a beautiful day today was.
leftover from a maintenance job
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