April 7, 2024 a thought for today, God and nature do not work together in vain. Latin Proverb

One of the photo uploads yesterday was “wet”. The largest “wet” area I could think of right then was the pond at Westgate Park. 

The next upload for yesterday was “something green”. As I was going
home, stopped at a traffic light I snapped a shot right as it turned green. I got the camera ready before the light changed. There was a car in front of me so I had a split second to shoot it before I had to move on. 

The third upload was “comfort”. I think that these benches around the park are for people to take a break, enjoy the scenery and watch folks pass by. There was a fisherman just beyond this image. 

Life today. “Sunday, Sunday, here again in tidy attire” (not so much anymore, no ladies with gloves, hats and nylon hose with seams). Still, and never to change, God’s day for us to rest, savor the peace, reflect and refresh.

We had very few folks at church but two new visitors I hope to see again. It was communion Sunday for us so one that has more of a spiritual and emotional lift. 

I am ‘in training’ for another task to add to my “volunteer job description”. I have been setting our streaming camera to backup to the memory card so we have the extra copy if and when needed. I went “solo” this morning so I guess that means I graduated today. 

The first shot for today is “something white”. I made several shots. In Photoshop I found this one of White Castle that I wanted to use as something white.

I had some medicine ready for pickup at Kroger so I made a stop there before I came home. I was able to gather my photos for today at church and on the way home. 

We are having a gorgeous day. Everyone is preparing for the once in a life time total solar eclipse that comes tomorrow. We are in the path of totality. I don’t have the eclipse glasses they are recommending so I won’t “see” it though I will be experiencing the darkness that comes with it. I am hoping there will be some kind of unique happening in the rest of the sky that I can capture with the camera. 

The next upload for today is “spring blossoms”. Some of the early harbingers of spring seem to be blooms of daffodils and dandelions. 

The word today is complete. To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. Epictetus.  Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement. Lope de Vega.  Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it. Tertullian.  I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel. Christopher Marlowe.  A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. Aristotle.  These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life. Aristotle.  The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness. Laozi.   Long is the road from conception to completion. Moliere. It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot. St. Jerome.  Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself. Confucius. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Laozi.  

The last upload for today is “game(s)”. I checked out a couple of places for some games. The twins don’t play many board games. Most of the games they play are on the tablets. I found one in the office at church and one in the Sunday School room, then some at the grocery story when I stopped by.

Article: This is interesting to read how people experienced a total eclipse without TV and solar eclipse glasses. This article is a story about the total eclipse in 1806 here in Ohio. On that date it was an event that “sparked fear and awe” along with “Reverence and superstition” and “Uproar and enlightenment”. Ohio was a new state at the time, about three years before the eclipse. Thomas Jefferson was president. The National Road, the first federal highway, was about to begin. At that time Ohio was home to “thriving settlements” and a “number of indigenous peoples still called Ohio home, including Delawares, Iroquois, Miamis, Senecas, Shawnees and Wyandottes.” The article mentioned the “Tecumseh’s eclipse”. It was “significant to two Shawnee brothers: Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa”. (Tenskwatawa was called  the Prophet). A letter written in 1806 “attempted to discredit Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa by demanding that their followers ask The Prophet (Tenskwatawa) to “cause the sun to stand still — the moon to alter its course” among other earth shattering and magical events. The story goes that when Tenskwatawa heard this he replied that “in 50 days, when the sun was at its highest point in the sky, “the Great Spirit take it into her hand and hide it from us” and day would turn to night”. On June 16 the prophecy was fulfilled by the total solar eclipse. The story goes on, Tecumseh “probably learned of the eclipse from settlers on one of his travel”. There was a person of “Archaeological Investigations at Southern Illinois University” in 2017, wrote that the knowledge of that eclipse was “widespread” among people on the frontier in the Great Lakes region and that natives in the region heard about it in visits to trading posts, forts and towns. He went on the write that we can “imagine Tecumseh and his brother earned a lot of street cred that day.” Of course other places witnessed that eclipse also, one place mentioned in the article was Vermont. The event was later  published in several newspapers around the country. One of the descriptions was that “the color and appearance of the sky were gradually changing from an azure blue to a more dark and dusky color, until it bore the aspect and gloom of night”. Some of the people witnessing that became frightened. Some fired arrows into the “heavens in the direction of the slowly darkening sun, to scare off the evil spirit.” According to the article one person “blamed that year’s ruined crops on the eclipse”. They claimed that after the eclipse the “weather was so much colder.”

Dinner will be either hamburgers and cheesy potatoes or something from the freezer.

Joy 

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