January 4, 2024 a thought for today, An empty purse can't stand alone and a full purse can't bend. Corsican Proverbs

One of the entries for yesterday was “yum!”. I am a foodie so in my minds eye there are a lot of yums. This one is probably one the most mouth watering. 

The next upload for yesterday was “macro”. This was taken a while back and rests in my archives. This was from a bouquet I had received as a gift. I like the color differences. 

My last upload for yesterday was “horse(s)”. This one is also from my archives. My niece took horseback riding lessons when she was younger. I use to go to the barn with her grandmother to watch her lessons. As I am an animal lover I was very attached to some of these magnificent creatures, not really just some.....all. I meet. 

Life today. Sue has decided that she isn’t up to going out at night any more to drop me off and pick me up for my meetings. Since it would be dangerous to everyone out on the streets and myself for me to drive at night (smile, sort of).  I have asked one of my friends to pick me up for the night time meetings at church. It is a bit more entailed this way but we made it to last night’s choir practice that way. There is another meeting tonight. Once the sun is still awake for the scheduled time of the meetings I can get there on my own. I have had one suggestion to get a ride from Uber. That seems a little extreme. I don’t know the cost for half a mile one way and then back again after an hour or two. It doesn’t seem to bright or cost effective an idea (or friendly and bonding either).

The weekly printing is done. While I was there printing, I had a discussion with Patti about the web page. After some exchange we decided to make an attempt to see what could possibly be done to restore one of the pages that have been missing for some time. I said I would send her a phone number to call for some information. 

My first upload today is “sunglasses”. I couldn’t think of an ‘artful’ was to show plain ol’ sunglasses. So I chose one of my crochet snowballs as a way to “showcase” a non-ornamental pair of sunglasses. 

When I got home and as I was starting the laundry Patti called with information about the web page. Between the two of us and a lady from Vistaprint, our provider, we may have been able to open the door to keeping the site open. It took Patti’s business sense and what I could contribute about the web site in general to get to this point. As soon as I have the time to concentrate effort to get through the technical maze of getting re-established, I will give it another try from my end. 

Both of the parts of my family from out of state have left on their way home after the holidays. Well, one has left the other will leave Friday. We have the memories of Christmas 2023 in our heart and minds. It’s time for me to begin refreshing my life after this long year.  Rebuilding and happy memories will sustain me and help in stepping into the journey. 

My next upload for today is “breakfast”. As usual I stopped at McDonalds on my way home from my printing at church. I got a pancake and sausage breakfast with an extra sausage pattie for Sweet Pea. 

The word today is take. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius.  People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. Epictetus.  Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Benjamin Franklin.  I wish they would only take me as I am. Vincent Van Gogh. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? Henry David Thoreau.   If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence. Lao Tzu.  As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. Diogenes.   If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. Abraham Lincoln.  Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. Horace.  Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. Francis Bacon.   Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. Saint Augustine.  

My last entry for today is “three”. As I was coming home after my stop at McDonalds I was on the lookout for something in a set of three. One of the images was traffic lights. Then as pulled onto my own street. I passed by these three little guys before I realized it was my image. So I backed up (safely) and got the shot.  

The article. This is a story from one of our local historian who writes an “As it Were” column. It is another with some perhaps new points that talks about the first Statehouse building here in Columbus and gives a bit of a time capsule about it. The article begins by sharing that it was the second public building constructed when Columbus when Ohio was a relatively new State. It was built second to the “Ohio Penitentiary, which is where the Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center is today on West Main Street”. This is an interesting point, prisoners would learn to assist in the building the other public buildings.  In 1857 history it was described as a plain brick building. It was a spread of 75 x 50 feet and two stories high. It had a square roof and a balcony along with a steeple in the center. There was a “first-rate, well-toned bell” in the one hundred and six feet tall steeple. Surrounding the roof that was next to the balcony on two sides was “railed walks” which allowed for a view of all of the “whole town” as well as the Scioto River. Another interesting bit of information was that the shingles on the roof were black walnut and “Freestone for the trimming to the foundation.....brought in wagons from Blacklick, twelve miles, by a wretched trail through the swamps”. Clay that made the bricks was collected from the a ancient Native American mound that was located where the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church is on South High at Mound Street. On the interior there were columns painted to imitate ‘clouded marble’. On the walls were maps of the State and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, along with other ‘articles and ornaments’. The General Assembly met there for the “next couple of decades”. In the 1830s more space was needed. By that time the city had grown to over 5,000 people and was still growing. Work began on a new Statehouse in 1838. It was suppose to take two years, it ended up taking twenty-two years to build and cost over two million dollars. The delays were caused from construction delays and “political infighting”. On February 1 of 1852 the old State House was on fire. The fire engines “could not reach the fire and it was then evident that the venerable old edifice … was doomed to destruction”. Only parts of the official documents were saved. From then on the General Assembly met in local inns and hotels until the new Statehouse was opened in 1861 with a visit from Abraham Lincoln. Some of the bricks from the old Statehouse were saved and used in parts of the new statehouse. “In that sense, a bit of the past is with us still.”

Most likely a tv dinner for dinner.

Joy

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