November 25, 2024 a thought for today, We see faces, hearts we know not. Mexican Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “my choice” and is one in a series of reelections. 

The next challenge upload for yesterday was “in a row”. I was in church when I was thinking of the photos I need for today. As I looked around this one seemed to fit for this challenge.

The last photo upload for yesterday was “bus stop”. I have others of a bus stop that have someone waiting. I think that makes it more interesting but I shot this one on my way home. 

Life today. It is becoming a very productive Monday. I got the bulletin done. Tom sent me the necessary information I needed to finish it. I also checked to see if there was going to be an anthem before I counted on it being completely finished. When I stopped on the newsletter yesterday, I had two pages and the photo page to get it finished. I did the two pages this morning so I still have the photo page to do.

It is lunch time and I have the letter almost done. I generated the three photos I need for today and have them run through Photoshop, cataloged (key worded for future searches) and ready for upload. 

An old family friend called the other day and said he may stop by sometime this afternoon. He really knew my sister and her husband more than me. Sue is the “talker” between the two of us....I am more the silent type (except when opening my mouth without thinking), not so much for “small talk”. 

My first upload for today is “black and white. This is one of my fig tree plants. I like the way the veins show in grayscale/monochrome/black and white image. 

I am also waiting to hear about my car. I have been told again that my car may be ready this afternoon. I have a feeling it will be tomorrow instead.  

I think Sue and I are going to Rebecca and Lowell’s for Thanksgiving. I was thinking of going into the church early to print the bulletin and the newsletter. I still may try to do that or stay late (after food pantry) on Wednesday. My helper with the newsletter may not be able to make it this month so I will bring them home to finish them. 

The weather is still a little more like early winter. On Thanksgiving day we are predicted to have some snow mixed with rain, not so good for travel..... over the river and through the woods. 

The next upload today is “from a low angle”. I have to get down on the floor and scoot around it catch several photos of this model.

The word for today is perfect.  To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. John Henry Newman.  To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walt Whitman.  To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius.  There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. Robert Louis Stevenson.  May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. Saint Ignatius. The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. Aristotle.  Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. Periander.  Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. Andrew Jackson.  God is the perfect poet. Robert Browning.  Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. Patrick Henry.  Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. Thomas de Quincey.  The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. William Hazlitt.  The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius.  No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. Jean de la Bruyere.  The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot.  All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt Whitman.  Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  

The last challenge for the day was “busy”. I just so happened as I glanced out the window this morning there were tree trimmers “busy” in the lawn across the street from me. 

Article: Here is another place in Columbus history that is going to be “re-purposed”. It will be interesting what it becomes. Hopefully there will be something noticable to bo on making history. The title is “This Midcentury Modern Downtown Church Could Soon Have A Whole New Life”. The church they are talking about is “the stately Livingston United Methodist Church” located in a prize part of the city. It is located on nearly two-acre property. The article goes on to say that the building is just an “old” building. It “has roots going back to 1843, originally built to serve the city’s growing German immigrant population”. In 1966 it had to be moved and “rebuilt” due to the I-70/I-71 freeway. There are original clocks left in the building. The parking lot is huge. The property is zoned as “Institutional, which means it needs to serve the public somehow”. The property is also located not far from the Nationwide Children’s Hospital and German Village. Some of the considerations for the property are an art center or a nonprofit headquarters serving Columbus’ diverse communities. Maybe a mixed-use development. The article put it this way “it’s always bittersweet to see a piece of history change hands, but the sale of the Livingston United Methodist Church is also a chance to write a new chapter for this corner of the city”. The church family belonging to the space will “relocate”. For those in the planning of this space, there is high anticipation for what will take this “landmark”.

Maybe a hamburger and fries for dinner. 

Joy

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