February 1, 2024 When vultures surround you, try not to die. African Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “on paper”. This is one those treasured art pieces that two  of my great grand children has made for me. And the Cardinals have a special significance for me especially at this time. 

The second upload for yesterday was “birds flying”. This is a hard one for me to capture. For this one Ihave to use one that I was able to catch when it was “catch as catch can”. 

The third and last image upload for this month is “feather(s)”. I found this one in the autumn lawn last year. 

Life today. Another Thursday in the memory files. The printing is done and a visit or two with others in the church.

I got a couple of my shots for the photo a day for today and the archives for later use. The sun is bright and shiny so finding photos seems to be easier and more pleasant on such days. 

This first upload for today, the first day of the month is “starts with the letter L”. I was waiting in my usual spot, behind a car at McDonalds this morning when I noted that the car was a Lincoln (two Ls for one shot). 

When I got home it was back to the computer to order a refill on meds and check and send a couple of emails. As I was pulling into the driveway I saw that the trash can that one of my kind neighbors had taken to the curb last night had been emptied. I brought it up before I came inside so I wouldn’t have to go back out again once I got busy.

I took time to start the laundry and check on paper items I need to reorder. Then back to the computer darkroom to re-examen the photos I shot. Only one of the three got a filter added. 

I was missing Bob last night for a while. My daughter talked me back to calm. He was such a big part of my life....remember to remember your loved ones before it’s to late. 

The second photo a day upload today is “a white bird”. He’s there in the crowd. 

The word today is window. A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman.  Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows. Lao Tzu.  Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. Benjamin Jowett.  It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. Thomas Carlyle.  I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world, Confucius.  If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows, Rumi. Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. Charles Spurgeon.  An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through, William Makepeace Thackeray.  There is a window from one heart to another heart, Rumi.  To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen, Thomas Huxley.  Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again, Henry Ward Beecher. The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window, Aesop.  If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner, Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

My third upload for today is “food”. After the Lincoln moved on I was able to pick up my brunch for today...pancakes and sausage. (There were two sausage patties, one was for Sweet Pea). 

The author of this article is one that is familiar on the PBS show I see on Thursdays, Broad and High/Columbus Neighborhoods. This story is about one of our iconic buildings in our downtown area. What caught my eye was “Weekly Reader”. I remember those and the fun I felt each time they came out. I didn’t realize until this article that it was published right here in Columbus. The building where it was published in the 1930s right next to the Dispatch building. The Weekly Reader was published from September 21, 1928 until 2012. Though the building where it began way eight stories tall the paper only took up part of that space. Other businesses took up the rest of the space one of which was the University Club. The article offered a description of the facade as: the eight-story building (now a parking lot) stood out due to its polished black stone façade on the first two floors and the paired windows on the limestone-clad upper floors”. The designer of this building also designed the  Columbus Metropolitan Library Main branch, the Athletic Club of Columbus, the Lazarus department store, the Citizens bank at Gay and High, and the Deaf School, today Cristo Rey High School”. The American Education Press, the publisher of the Weekly Reader, was run by Harrison Sayre who later established the “Columbus Foundation in late 1943". Years later his daughter founded the Columbus Landmarks Foundation. The Weekly Reader “helped elementary and high school students master reading”. As part of the display where the paper was printed decorative panels had letters of the alphabet and punctuation marks which helped bring attention to its purpose. These decorative panels led to “a mother and her little tot were using the building by having him repeats the alphabet....the keys to its (the Weekly Reader) early successes were the timely news articles that had a children's angle”. A note about the Weekly Reader: “My Weekly Reader was an instant success. By December, circulation was 99,000. In 1929, a second edition was started for younger children, and their combined circulation was 376,000. By 1931, there were four editions, with a combined circulation of 1,099,000......In February 2012, Weekly Reader was acquired by Scholastic News.”

Dinner will be something from the freezer tonight. 

Joy      

                                     This is the end of the month so these are my composites.