September 2, 2024 a thought for today, Each child brings his own blessing into the world. Jewish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “fall is nearing”. The leaves are beginning to change colors and fall.  The sign autumn is beginning here in Ohio.

The next upload for yesterday was “whoops”. It looks like this is a post that
someone bumped or ran into it....a major whoops. 

The third upload for yesterday was “things I love”. One of my biggest loves is animals. This one is the closest to me right now. She is my major confidant and my best friend. 

Life today. This Monday is getting a bit of a shaky start. At least it is a little off the normal way my Monday’s start. I did a tiny start on the bulletin, just moving some of the updated information to the back section. I will get back to it tomorrow. 

I got some of the art supplies I have been waiting for so I wanted to spend sometime finding out how to use them properly.

Another thing that was on the todo list was the photos for today. I got those done also. Lowell had called to ask if Sue and I would want to go to a late lunch at York Steak House. That’s why I got the photos done to the point of upload before we left. 

My first challenge upload for today is “ordinary thing”. My red broom in a corner of gray on one side and white on the other. 

We’re back. Lunch was nice. It wasn’t as crowded as I thought it would be since it is a holiday. 

We still haven’t had the rain we need for, for most all of the summer, but today is a perfect end of summer/hint of autumn day. The temperature is perfect and the sun along with the gentle breezes are so friendly.

....Now that I am back it’s time to do some uploading. That will take about an hour. That should be about dinner time.....but I won’t be having much since the early lunch was filling. 

The next upload for today is “macro”. This is one of my air plants. I don’t have any experience with air plants so I have no measure of how they should be doing. These seem healthy. I love their varied shapes. There seems to be a “silence” about them. Strange thing to say maybe but it seems to be an aura for me. 

The word today is merely.  All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. William Shakespeare.  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi.  A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. Frederick the Great.  Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. Thomas Aquinas.  I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian. Saint Ignatius.  Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle.  Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. Democritus.  Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.  Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Age merely shows what children we remain. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. William Shakespeare.  Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. Chief Seattle.  

The last upload for today is a “colourful door”. This is a neighbor’s door. Mine was the same color for many years. 

This article tells a little more about the early history of Columbus and a part that is left. The title is “Maybe arch of Columbus history does offer us a nickname: Arch City”. It starts out by saying that Columbus seems not to have a nickname as New York, the Big Apple, or Chicago, the Wendy City. Some have called Columbus the Capital City, some called it the Cowtown for a while, as connected to the OSU agricultural college in 1870. There was a time it was called the Discovery City. The article mentioned that the name that lasted the longest, more than a quarter-century was Arch City. In connection with that fact “we still are a place defined by our arches”. That name became attached in 1888. There was a lot of growth after the Civil War and the opening of the Hocking Valley Railroad. Columbus was “feeling so good” about these advancement that “the Grand Army of the Republic, the Union Army veterans organization” was invited here to “hold its 22nd Annual Encampment and convention in 1888". In preparation for tent cities around the town and other arrangements such as food and security better lighting around the city downtown streets were needed. At the time the only lighting was “oil lamps on short poles at street corners and threw very little light”. The city officials came up with the idea of “a series of wooden arches lit with gas lamps was erected along High Street through Downtown. They were remarkably successful in keeping the area well-lit and secure during the convention”. According to the article “they remained a popular fixture for a brief time after the convention”. After a time it became apparent that something more permanent should be considered. The lamps were replaced by “metal arches and powered by electric light bulbs. The arches also carried the power lines for a recently electrified streetcar system”. They created a “magical glow to city streets and buildings after a rain shower”. That’s when the Arch City nickname came into being. At one time the “arches were extended in every direction from the Short North to the South Side, and from the Near East Side to Franklinton across the Scioto River to the west” until 1911. Around that time city leaders wanted brighter cluster lights at the street corners. Now the arches were no longer needed. Most were removed. “The last lonely arch in Columbus was removed from Mt. Vernon Avenue in 1937". “The legend of “Arch City” never died”. In 2002 there came “new metal lighted arches marched up High Street through the Short North from Goodale Street to Fifth Avenue”. Other arches were erected in the Lennox Town Center near the OSU campus. The article ended with “the arches came back and Columbus became the once and future Arch City”. There are other popular arch structures in Columbus. Union Station arch. originally part of the entrance to the city's Union Station. It has been moved to the Arena District. Short North Arches, in the Short North Arts District. Installed in 2002 and feature LED lights that create a rainbow effect. Rich Street Bridge, a bridge uses lightweight precast concrete arch ribs to reduce construction time and improve corrosion resistance. Wooden arches that were originally installed in 1888 to light the streets during a national convention. Rainbow arches, the Ohio Department of Highways established a standard design for rainbow arches in 1923.

It will be something from the freezer for dinner. 

Joy

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