November 19, 2024 a thought for today, In good times, the wise man works for the state. In bad times, he looks after himself. Chinese Proverb
The first upload for yesterday was “mirror”. Brian was here yesterday washing our windows on the lower level of the house. Sue has a mirror on the front porch. Brian washed with along with the other windows. He called me to check and see how I thought it looked. I told him I would take a photo of it. This is it.
Life today. I’m whining again....these days are a little tough on me right now. I know they will pass on. I just need to hang in there. It seems one small thing after another. First after experiencing the “bump” on my car, then there were calls with insurances and car repair. Next, to get a car to borrow, one to be even more careful with. Next that car developed a check engine problem, then a new borrowed car. Then the hand of trouble came down with a “broken” computer....I am on the computer with one task or another probably five or more a day. The computer goes to the shop....the computer comes home....three major computer programs are wiped out. Next my tablet that I use for my ebooks and a regular streaming show as well as all of my “brain games”, stops....the (expensive) charging cable has stopped working. ..smile, it will all pass. I think that is enough complaining for one day. Thanks for “listening”.
Today was a food pantry day. My partner couldn’t be there today so one of the other ladies helped out. She did amazingly well. Everything went well. There were a couple of little stumbles but only took a few seconds to steer in the right direction. The whole thing was good considering that we were having a full load today. We had to close the door since we reached our limit. We have another day tomorrow. My “partner” should be back then to.
We had some rain this morning and are predicted to get possible snow in the next couple of days. Just my luck to be driving a car I don’t own in other than perfect weather. Can you tell I don’t like driving a car.....but I like to get places (without bothering others for a ride).
As soon as I got home and had a bit of lunch I made Sweet Pea “treat” meatballs. I got back to finishing this letter that I had about one quarter of the way done before I left for pantry. I took the three photo a day photos on my way home and loaded them to the cloud between lunch, letter and meat balls.
The word today is poor. What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Saint Augustine. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. Benjamin Franklin. It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Charles Dickens. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn. All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. Plato. From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East. Nostradamus. Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls. Heraclitus. An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. Plutarch. Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life. Saint Ignatius. No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. Charles Spurgeon. I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. Saint Patrick. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. James Russell Lowell. We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. Samuel Johnson.
Article: A story about some interesting find in our state and some buried history in the form of “sandstone artifact”. The article begins with saying that these finds connect the city, Cincinnati, with a “civilization from over 2,000 years ago”. They found the five inches tall tablet in 1841. It was found during construction near Fifth and Mound Streets . The UPS business is located a that site now. The land that the tablets were found on was originally a burial mound of the Adena peoples. Apparently when they were found there were other items buried along side the tablets. Some of the items were “copper ornaments, bear-tooth pendants, and polished bone tools”. They say that this little table was a “first-of-its-kind find.” The local newspaper as well as the Smithsonian’s first publication told about the find. Much later, in 1976, the table was “featured in London during a bicentennial exhibit on Native American art”. The article went on to describe the Adena people. They “thrived in the Early Woodland Period (1000–200 B.C.) and left their mark across Ohio with burial mounds and ceremonial earthworks”. The article mentioned that the mounds were “engineering marvels” rather than just piles of dirt. Sacred artefacts were buried there along with human remains (much like the pyramids, maybe). There are many other such mounds in existence. They are landmarks that may “remind us of the vibrant, interconnected cultures that flourished here long before Ohio became a state”.
Something out of the freeze again tonight.
Joy
abandoned
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