My Life, My World

October 18, 2024, a thought for today, A wounded soul is difficult to heal. Jewish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “dramatic clouds”. These clouds seem to pop out of that awesome bright blue heaven.

The second upload for yesterday was part of the series of “faceless portraits”. This is my sister as she watches my son-in-law put up the photo rails.

The third upload for yesterday was “metal”. This one became right on the spot for me for this challenge. It is it drill bit Andy was using to finish this project. It was in the right place and the right time.

Life today. The church newsletter is started. I was able to get some of the basic edits done to part of the pages. I moved on to putting together the photo challenge uploads for today. I took a couple of them yesterday while I was out, that’s a good thing about knowing what’s due ahead each day. Then I went outside to shoot the other photos I needed. Next moved on to work in the “dark room” (Photoshop) to get them ready for their journey to Instagram/Facebook/Flickr/Bettrphoto and my blog gallery.

The sun is bright today, the air is still a little on the cool side. It’s just like autumn, in Ohio, ought to be.

The every-other-day letter is in a good place. It is ready for upload. The “article” portion was interesting and tempted me to do a little more research on subjects mentioned there. Sometimes when I start these articles they mention something that I want to know more about so I do some research. At those times I feel almost like I am back in some class or other, could be history, sociology, or geography even sentence structure. I love it.

The first upload for today is another in my series of “faceless portraits”. It was taken outside one of the stores in a near by shopping mall.

Later I need to make some Sweet Pea meat balls, place and online curbside pickup order and order dinner.

Andy will be back later today to finish putting up my picture rails. Hopefully, Tami will be with him. I like some sort of contact with at least as much of my family as I can daily even for just a hello, how was you day and how are you. Last night I had a virtual visit with Jessie, Lexie and Drew. It was only ten minutes or so but awesomely satisfying. I even had a text with Rebecca about our shared step counting tasks. It so nice getting a tiny taste of each of their lives if only for a few seconds a day.

My next upload for today is “food”. I found this image of bright colors in my archives and thought if fit this challenge perfectly.

The word today is need. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. Rumi. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller. They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just insight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. Emily Dickinson. We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. William Wordsworth. How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. Thomas Aquinas. The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. Victor Hugo. A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned and its needs are still unborn. Charles Spurgeon. One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy. Louisa May Alcott.

The last challenge upload for today is “season”. This is a colorful season albeit not so much this season. The colors do seem to be showing themselves a little better now than a week ago.

Article: We have a river that flows through the downtown part of the city. There are interesting places to see here in Columbus that attract people in their travels. One of the many things to see is the Scioto Peninsula. This article lists some of the places to see. The peninsula’s history pretty much began with the history of Franklinton. As mentioned earlier in one of the blogs, the major floods in that area is a big part of the earliest history of the area. That area is now part of what is called the Scioto Peninsula. In rebuilding after the floods the fifty-six acre peninsula was a site for manufacturing and low income housing project. The article mentioned that Central High School “helped to maintain a residential presence”. As the manufacturing businesses began to decline much of the area as bulldozed. Central High School closed in the 1980s. By the mid 1990s “the area was largely empty except for Veteran’s Memorial and a handful of housing developments and businesses”. After that plans began to form in an effort to “help bring Franklinton back”. One of the first things that started things in motion was that COSI moved into the former and empty Central High School building. COSI renovated and expanded the building constructing exhibit and museum space. Not much went on with the plan until about 2012. In 2010 a plan was formed with “a list of 12 projects it wanted to accomplish in the downtown area”. One of the plans was “the renovation of the riverfront with Scioto Mile and the redevelopment of City Center into Columbus Commons”. Then came the redevelopment of the Scioto Peninsula and the eventual “emerging back-to-the-city movement”. The “East Franklinton itself began to emerge as an artist destination”. According to what I learned from the article the art part of the project seemed to become more prominent due to the “final stage of gentrification” in the Short North. Franklinton “has proven to be an attractive alternative”. Residential projects seemed to be more “in the works” now along with “warehouse conversions and new bars and restaurants”. The Veterans Memorial built 1955 was replaced. The article mentioned a Columbus Zoo had planed for a $50 million square foot zoo extension with an aquarium, rainforest and zoo themed playground. A new underground parking garage for COSI was planned. In the area of Bell Street and the railroad tracts on the western border of the peninsula the plan was for a “mix of low, mid and high-rise mixed-use buildings”. There would be ground level retail with the upper floors mostly residential. There was a plan to include the Scioto River itself in the “peninsula plan”. It is mentioned in the article “the removal of low-head dams through Downtown. This would lower the river level through Downtown, creating 33 acres of new land that will be landscaped into park space”. That space was planed with be bike paths and walkways. Apparently the “river itself will run faster, cleaner and open up more potential recreational uses”.

It’s probably going to be pizza for dinner coming to us via DoorDash.

Joy

good ol’days