March 22, 2024 a thought for today, Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. Jewish Proverb
One of the uploads for yesterday was “green”. There are three letters of the alphabet statues in the park near my home. They are each painted a different color. This on was my pick for yesterday.
Life today. Another newsletter Friday in the books. I met Dorothy at church about 8:30. We got the newsletter, re-folded with a donation envelop in the center, sealed, address labeled, and stamps applied. I had a chance to talk briefly with Patti and then with Dorothy as we worked together.
After that I made my usual rounds ... brunch and photos. Today it was pancakes and sausage. Then on the lookout for the needed images for today. Two of them would be from the archives, which meant a search through thousands of photos. One on the search list was for stormy clouds, the sky today is relatively clear so that wouldn’t work. Another was for World Water Day. The only water to fit that word would be the park with the pond down the street. I wanted something more “spectacular”, so .... archives. I did come up with a fresh ‘old and new’ image.
The first image upload for today is “old and new”. I think this one needs little explanation. A newly opened flower bloom against old brick and last years mulch.
I am really tired of the “cold” weather. I am more ready for spring and its warmth and sunshine than I think I have ever been. I think I would actually miss the changes in seasons that Ohio offers but as the years take their toll the “need” for warmth in the air is stronger. The flowers are coming up and add a touch of the renewal that spring brings.
I really need to get some “spring cleaning” done. I think that term, spring cleaning, has migrated in terms over time. In my mother’s time it use to mean hanging rugs over a line in the yard and beating them with a bat of some kind. It meant “deep” cleaning of all parts of the house. Now I think it is more like “decluttering and organizing”. My “decluttering and organizing” is going to take much longer than just a week or month....more like a year. In the fifty plus years that I have lived in this house there are “savings” from every year here. Tami has recently given a hint of encouragement in that direction of helping me. Maybe that is what I need, a non-stop encouragement until it’s done.
The word today is calm. He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age, Plato. Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. Seneca the Younger. Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. Gautama Buddha. Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. Martin Luther. Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Saint Francis de Sales. Calmness is the cradle of power. Josiah Gilbert Holland. Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton. Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed. Confucius. When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties. Horace. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. Lewis Carroll. A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop. Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Marcus Tullius Cicero.
The last photo a day upload was “stormy clouds”. This is another from the archives. This was a particularly angry cloud day.
The article is about a “sensory garden”. I think the first I had any inkling of a “sensory garden” was on a vacation about sixty years ago when we stopped at a garden near Niagra Falls. There was a portion of the garden dedicated for blind folks. They were able to pinch the leaves of some plants to experience the aroma of the plant. They could also determine the texture, shape and feel of the leaf. The article starts with the statement that these gardens offer the chance “to see. And smell. And touch. And even hear and taste”. It went on to share that one of the nation’s largest such space opened in 2010 in Wickham Park near Hartford, Connecticut. It is divided into “rooms” each with it own sense to offer. In these gardens they offer plants that have an odor. They offer ones with taste such as fruits and berries. Then there is the one for touch which are plants that are soft and some that are pointed. There are water features and wind chimes in the gardens to approacfh the sense of sound. For the sight portion of the sensory garden colors, textures, shapes are used. All the plants in the garden are tapered heights to add interest. Some of the plants for the sense of smell would be “viburnum, lilac, hyacinth, jasmine, gardenia and garden phlox”. For the sense of touch rough bark to smooth succulents as well as “feathery” ferns and “soft” lambs ear. Sensory gardens are therapeutic to special needs children as well as improving overall mood and keeping folks physically and mentally active. It is also use in cases of dementia. Designed for people with dementia, as color, touch and scent can calm and ground, and inspire the recollection of distant memories and sensations.
Pizza night has rolled around again. I haven’t made up my mind if it will be frozen pizza or homemade sauce on pre-made pizza crust.
Joy
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