February 21, 2025 a thought for today, When God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. Yiddish Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “poetry”. I used my foot prints in the snow to try to fit with the idea of the proem “Footprints”. Hopefully it expresses the feeling of the original idea of the poem. ("The times when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.")

The next upload was “t is for...” I used the telephone in the office at church for this upload. I was printing and folding, glanced at the phone and decided “one of my assignments. 

The next upload challenge for yesterday was “upside down”. Both my toothpaste and my catsup were “upside down”.....perfect fit for the assignment. 

I had another of the days for a fourth photo a day upload. This assignment was
“high or low key”. The snowy surface made for a great high key image. The light colored and bright sun-lit trucks added to the high key final image. 

Life today. I think the weather is going to finally swing back to something livable. Today is still cold and last night seemed more so than the past two nights. Tomorrow is supposed to be the “turn around day”. It will be the start for at least the next week. It will gradually go up each day. I am so looking forward to that. 

I think I got the newsletter done this morning. There is the one piece that I never know will go in or not. I am waiting for that one. In the meantime I filled the page with the lyrics for one of my favorite hymns, Spirit (of gentleness). I will take it down if I get the financial page before I can get to the church to print. 

I took some time out from the computer to determine which ports on a usb hub works and which don’t. I want to add some external hard drives that have thousands of old photo archived on them. 

The first upload for today is “u is for....” One of the “U” words I found in google was utensils. So I am using some of my art/hobby/craft utensils as the subject for this image. 

I have recently joined the Goodreads book group and have been taking time here and there to fill in all of the books I have read in the past few years I can’t remember all of the ones before that. I read many as autobooks when I was still employed. I “read” them when I was driving for my work between three cities. 

Added to all of that I had to find and set up props for some of my photos for today. I like “naturally” shot photos for the most part but sometimes I need to set them up.

Now I am ready to do the “online grocery shopping” for the curb side pick up tomorrow. And clean up the mess I made for lunch and the photo set ups.

The second upland for today is “naturally framed”. I noticed how a break in the needled covered branches of the evergreen tree were framing a ray of sunshine. 

The word for today us solid. Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. Confucius.  Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon.  I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid. Henry David Thoreau.  Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us. Saint Ignatius.  The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Voltaire.  Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Thomas Carlyle.  I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked. Charles Lawrence. God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them. Isaac Newton.  Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. Samuel Adams.  

The last upload for today is “lucky”. This is a part of my “lucky bamboo” plant. It is a baby plant so it doesn’t show much of the traditional ring around the stalks of the plant yet in it’s young life. 

This article lists “The Best Indoor Activities For Kids In Columbus”. This is a a list of some interesting places in Columbus that children could have a good time and adults may find them interesting....maybe that would be the inner child in the adult. “Columbus institutions like COSI and Franklin Park Conservatory offer educational programs.” In most of the places lived there are activities for all ages. There is a trampoline parks and rock climbing walls.  At the “ABC Climbing program offers a unique way to build agility, balance, and coordination”. For older kids there is the climbing walls at “Team Vertical or their recreational Climber’ Club”. One of the outstanding places for kid in Columbus is COSI. It upended in 1964. There is a “wide range of science and technology” mixed with wonder. It is a place that “encourages imaginative play and creativity.” Surprisingly the Columbus Museum of Art offers children a place of wonder and learning. It is free every day for children under 5 and all on Sunday. The is a “Wonder Room” or a place to set out on a museum-wide scavenger hunt”. The next place mentioned in the article is the Columbus Metropolitan Library.  The library is “more than just a collection of books”. There are areas for and to “interactive exhibits, participate in storytelling sessions, and engage in educational activities designed to spark curiosity”. It offers a place to “discover the joy of reading and learning”. On the list of places to visit is the Franklin Park Conservatory. There are seasonal activities for kids. It is a place “to participate in a green lifestyle all year long”. Then there is the LEGOLAND Discovery Center where there are “indoor rides to awesome building experiences”.  There is a place called Little Diggers Play Space. This one is “tailored for the youngest adventurers, this vibrant space offers a variety of engaging activities that promote imaginative play and social interaction”. 

It’s DoorDash or GrubHub (take out) for dinner tonight....maybe Chinese. 

Joy

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