March 28, 2024 a thought for today, Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its back. Japanese Proverb
My first photo yesterday upload was “street”. This is a view of my neighborhood street along with other parts of the landscape.
separation area then turned the photo to black and white leaving the selected cross red.
The last of the photo uploads for yesterday was “pairs”. In this image I paired the soup with crackers.
Life today. Yesterday we had someone interested in buying Bob’s car which we have to sell before the probate is final. So this car was in my name now so I had to go with Lowell to take the car to the possible buyer. I had to leave food pantry at church in a sort of hurry, something I don’t like to do until we are completely shut down. But it couldn’t be helped this one time. Anyway, the buyer actually was very interested in the car and bought it on the spot at asking price. It was a little hard for me since it is one more thing of Bob’s gone.
When I let Sweet Pea out for her outing I noticed that I was going to have to scrap the windows before I could go to church. So I started the engine to warm up the car as I was getting ready to leave so that it would be a little easier to clear the windows.
I got to church before any of the groups who meet early every day, even before Patti got there. I had three separate documents to print today, the hymn lyrics sheet, the Easter lily dedication sheets and the bulletin. The first two were inserts so naturally I printed them first. I had those done before other activities were beginning in the rest of the church.
Once I got home and made a quick start back on the computer I got started on the laundry.
Brian is supposed to be here today to start the seasonal lawn mowing along with a couple of other minor chores I have for him.
Sweet Pea still isn’t eating the way she should. It is probably something I will have to talk to the vet about. Since she has always had a weak digestive problem I found that giving her pumpkin would help. So I am going to use that technique in trying to get her to eat. Since she has started the treatment for the ACL tear she has only eaten twice. It seems to be on the second day after the shot. Hopefully that will be enough of a diet to get through this treatment for the next three weeks. No wonder my hair is white (notice I didn’t say gray). I have always worried about things way beyond what their actual outcome turned out to be. I am now in that kind of worry about her health and prognosis.
The next upload for today is “pillow”. This is a decorative pillow on Sue’s highly patterned easy chair.
The word for today is cause. This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. Leonardo da Vinci. Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. John Locke. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Abraham Lincoln. I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson. Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow. Brigham Young. I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind. Samuel Adams. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. Voltaire. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps. Charles Goodyear. Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. George Henry Lewes. Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Voltaire. Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. Virgil.
Article: This is about an icon in Columbus for many years, from 1955 to about 2020. When it was removed as one of the statues in the country during a country wide protest. Some have wondered what has and will become of the 7,000-pound statue. There was recently another of many meetings of a small group of people to decide what is to become of the statue that has been in storage since that time. There have been thoughts of returning it to a “less-prominent public or private space”. If or when it is returned to public view the hopes are for a space that “reflect the city’s collective history, values, and aspiration”. There are some negative feelings about this particular statue that seem to negate the fact of his historical connection to the formation of our country and the connection to our city and its name. With those thoughts added to the negative narrative, it should be decided which is most important to the facts of why and how we, the country and the city, are here. Other “facts” about Columbus’ personality as a human being shouldn’t erase our importance and where we came from as a nation. It seems to be taking a lot of separate gatherings of people talking about a new placement or not for it. In my opinion one of the points that should be taken into account is that another country on the planet gave the statue to us as a gift. I have been taught that you don’t disrespect gifts. Also the fact that it is a monumental, if only in size, “work of art”. There is a memory among our Italian Americans of it’s cultural symbol that should be part of the discussions. There is another Columbus statue in the city that doesn’t have the “gift” part connected to it or the size and cost. That statue is still standing.
I have been invited to go to dinner with Lowell and Rebecca.
Joy
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