December 11, 2024 a thought for today, If a needle can pierce it don't chop with an ax. Burmese Proverb
The first upload for yesterday was “sweet tooth”. This was a gift from a neighbor for the holiday.
Another upload for yesterday was “cookies”. This is one from my archives since I don’t do much baking anymore.
The next upload was “hat”. I decided to use this one as I saw several workers as I was driving down Broad Street and decided to use it as my challenge.
Life today. It’s one of those days that I don’t really want to be doing anything. Things just don’t happen that way, not for me at least. So here I am at the computer with a list of things to get done before I leave for another computer at food pantry.
I want to get a few things done before I leave for the church. Then when I get home I have to make some of Sweet Peas “treat” meat balls.
Lowell has an appointment with me to go look at cars. A friend of the family who came to us through my son Bob is a car salesman, is going to help me.
My fist upload for today is “twelve things”. This is a dozen of the ground chicken meatballs I was making for Sweet Peas treats.
....I just got home from pantry. It was a good day as far as going smoothly. There weren’t as many guests as we have been having but still a good number were served. We are slowly getting a monitor attached to one of the new laptops. I have never set up at a second monitor to a laptop before so there was some experimenting for me to do.
We had some snow flurries during the night. I have some snow on the rental car that needed to be cleared away before I left. I have been trying my best not to get even a scratch on the car before I rerun it so I very carefully used the brush to clear the snow. I am glad it wasn’t a heavy snow that I had to scrape.
The word today is produce. Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin. As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. Adam Smith. Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. Plutarch. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Aristotle. Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. Plato. Your life must be a progression towards ownership - first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce. Robert Greene. Honest hearts produce honest actions. Brigham Young. There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. Thomas Paine. No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. James Russell Lowell. What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. Aristotle. There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands. Benjamin Franklin. Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. Alexander Pope. Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
Article: This another bit of history about an building in Columbus. A building that came into being in the “Guilded Age” and is still standing in Columbus. Imagine the stories it could tell especially from the occupants that visited there. It is called “The Westin Great Southern Hotel”. The article says it has been a “cornerstone of downtown Columbus since 1897. It opened at the Great Southern Hotel. It was remained a historic landmark where “over a century of change, growth, and celebration” has taken place. It was built in the “French Renaissance” style with stone carvings and “elegant interiors”. It is was known as a most “remarkable” building in Columbus. Besides the “opulent” rooms and a grand ballroom is that it also “featured the Great Southern Theatre, an adjoining venue that quickly became a cultural hub.” The theatre was wrapped in “ornate plasterwork, hand-painted ceilings, and top-notch acoustics” of the time. It is still standing and maintained with a careful restoration. Much of Columbus’ arts and entertainment still are held there among the “historic charm”. There has been presidents and Hollywood starts who graced the presence of this building. There was a “major renovation” in the 1980s. The renovation “brought it new life as the Westin Great Southern Hotel, preserving its historic charm while updating its amenities for modern guests”. Some of the sand-outs of this building are brick and limestone with arched windows and :intricate cornices” which still makes a standout feature in Columbus. Inside there are marble floors, a grand staircase and intricate woodwork. In this modern age the West Great Southern hosts weddings and events in the ballroom. “A fantastic place to get an idea of what downtown looked like in decades past.”
Dinner will be from the freezer again tonight.
Joy
another light in the dark
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