December 29, 2023 a thought for today, An overturned cart ahead warns the one behind. Chinese Proverb
The first upload for the 28th was “this is how I relax”. This is my “easy” chair with the afghan when needed for winter months. This is my “evening” space, after dinner and clean up. The tv on for background sound or a catch of interesting news and entertainment while I am working on “brain games” used for attempting to interrupt dementia or Alzheimer. This is interspaced with my chosen ebook of the moment.
The next upload for yesterday was “shiny”. That’s hard to capture....shiny. This is the flickering lights in the Chucky Cheese building near my home.
Life today. Wonderful Fridays, the end of a week. It is a sort of relaxing of tensions. It is a time I can pick what I want to do for the day with no worry about getting it finished by a certain time. So I have been jumping around with one project then another. At one point there was a bit of panic though. My computer was acting very strangely so I ended up rebooting. Things came back VERY slowly. At one point I thought I had lost all files on my external hard drive which would have meant several thousands of photos and letters/blogs. Needless to say if had I had tranquilizers on hand I would have taken one. Eventually it all came back. Now I am a happy camper.
I think at one point today I may have, over stepped from one persons point of view. I am getting a feeling that that was a mistake. I am feeling bad about it and not knowing how to fix it. I guess time will tell.
This has been an interesting season for me. Losing Bob has naturally affected my feeling and maybe my reactions to some daily happenings. I am slowly adjusting but it is taking some time, patients and “letting go to let God....”. Hopefully 2024 will bring some more strength and understanding....I know it will....my faith tells me so.
The next upload for today is “your choice”. As I was out and about I was looking for possibilities for an image for this title. I finally chose this one of the steps leading to an empty park bench. In the summer time it would probably have been in use, not so much in the winter.
The word for today is spirit. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak, Rumi. Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit, Sitting Bull. We are spirits clad in veils, Christopher Cranch. There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. Napoleon Bonaparte. Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. Amos Bronson Alcott. O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Saint Augustine. When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. Alexis de Tocqueville. The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity, Thomas Huxley. Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? Tecumseh. What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. Chief Seattle. Spirt, calling and free.
This is a story about our state and a little town not far from Columbus. The town has interesting facts that were part of the PBS show this week, Broad and High/Columbus Neighborhoods/Driving with Darbee. The title is an eye catcher: “Ohio's smallest town”. I think a few things that is going on in that “smallest” town is worth noting. To begin with it has a “rich legacy in the civil-rights and labor movements”. The town, village, features “block-long downtown in the hills of southeastern Perry County is broken only by the whistle of the coal trains”. Much of the town is made up of older folks who have lived there in “tidy clapboard houses”. City council meetings are shot and the biggest problem solving may by to fill a pot hole or to cut weeds. An 88-year-old resident was asked if she was the oldest living in the community. She replied yes since Ruel died at 93. When she was asked why she stayed there she said “‘I like it.’ I want to stay here till I die. Don’t put me in a rest home”. Int the 1880s there was a population in Rendville. It was populated mostly by black miners and white immigrant miners from Europe. All were paid the same wages. There were saloons, gambling, store and churches in the community. One man who lived there eventually became a Baptist pastor and civil right leader. Another man organized labor rights for United Mine Workers of America in the 1800s. There is some interest to bring to attention “significant history that there is value in maintaining the village,” ...... and help efforts “to restore and promote the region”. In one report about the town it is mentioned that “Rendville is among the former coal-mining communities in Perry, Athens, Hocking and Morgan counties known collectively as the Little Cities of Black Diamonds”. The coal mining that began in the 1870s ended in the 1930s. The present mayor of the town wants it to stay as it is saying that “It’s such a peaceful little town”. The village is so small that the mayor says that if a road need repaired they do it themselves. There are a county sheriff and a volunteer fire department for safety protections when needed. It takes very little money to run the town/village. There is a church in the town that where the early settlers in the town attended services. The church has become the “Rendville Art Works, where developmentally disabled people paint and sculpt”. This is the part that the PBS show on their report last Thursday. The Art Works was opened in 2002. It took its beginning from two art oriented projects, People Say” at the SPiCYAM Arts Center, Shawnee, in 2000 and “Art for Every Thought” at Zanesville Savage Folk Art Gallery in 2001". The Art Works are “housed in the old First Baptist Church (built in 1861) on Main Street in Rendville, Ohio”. Every work day of the week, Monday through Friday, from 9 to 2, “seven and nine artists with varied abilities arrive to work on their individual projects”. These artists who a disabled in one area of life or other, has their on “special” interest. That interest could be “painting, drawing, sculpting, or working with other media”. The work has been called “Folk, Outsider, or Self-Taught”. The article calls it contemporary or realist in nature. It is always open during business house and has two special events each year. One is an open house in the spring and one is a holiday open house around Thanksgiving. They also exhibit their finished work “at other galleries, shops, art festivals, and museums throughout the year”. The article ended by mentioning that there have been visitors from “around the country and around the world”.
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