April 24, 2025 a thought for today, Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance. Native American Lakota Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “walkway”. One of my other groups had a challenge called “sidewalk” on the 20th so that photo and this look much the same. That one was of a street a block from my house this one is from beside my church parking lot. Both nice and respectable community scenes. 

The second image upload was “apple”. One of my friends had brought an apple for a snack and let me use it for my prop for today

The last photo upload for yesterday was "glimmer micro moments". This one is a "field of dandelions". This one is so full there is very little grass visible. We seem to be having an over growth of them this year....nature's abundance.

 The last upload was one of this month’s “glimmer micro moments”. This not an unusual sight in our neighborhood right now. I know, they are considered weeds but....kind of bring a smile don’t they?

Life today. This week, now traditionally the busiest of the month for me, is close to coming to an end. The bulletin for the week is done, one week of food pantry is done, and the newsletter is printed and folded. Dorothy is going to meet me tomorrow to finish the ‘packaging’ and get it in the mail. 

Apparently someone didn’t set the alarm last night, it went off when I came in the door. I was able to get it shut off without incident. I was there for an hour or so alone and quite. Then some of the AA people started coming in for a meeting. When I left I was on the look out for the photos I need today. I was able to find all three with a few extra. 

My first upload for today is “nature”. I was driving around taking photos of trees and clumps of grass for this challenge until I saw this guy. He seemed to be calling me. The only thing that makes me sad is that I tried to get closer to him, I think I scared him, he took off, spreading his wing in that awesome wonder. I wish that instead of staring at him with my mouth open in wonder I snapped the shutter. 

I finished my book last night and went looking for the next one. I don’t like to be without at book on hand every day. I have read so many books from three excellent writers that it is now hard to find one of their books that I haven’t already read. So I am trying a new author. I have tried that before. I think I may be spoiled by the writers that I find use their descriptive wording/language that is meaningful and addictive for me. Maybe I will find another that meets the “requirements” to hold my interest. 

After I got back to my computer I worked on keywording the todays photos and cataloging them in the portfolio calendars. After that I got the laundry started. Now it’s back to the letter.  

Next challenge today is one of this month’s “glimmer micro moment”. This group of tulips is in one of the small church gardens. They are about to release their blooms and rest.

The word today is will.  That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. David Hume.  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau.  Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. Rumi.  None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. Matthew Henry.  One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. Niccolo Machiavelli.   Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington.  If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. James Madison.  Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn.  The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. William Blake. If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. Francis of Assisi.  Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Saint Augustine.  Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' Alfred Lord Tennyson.  You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Desiderius Erasmus.  I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon.  Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving. 

The last one today is “in the middle”. It was hard for me to find something “in the middle” so I created this one. 

Article: It’s interesting for me to picture what Columbus was like in the early years. This story seems to cover a good bit of those beginning years and spaces in the city when it was new with hope. In the original article there are several photos of those days. The title is “These Historic Neighborhoods In Columbus Tell The City’s Real Story”. It talked about the neighborhoods that formed as the city developed. How  places like “Flytown, Franklinton, and German Village were laying the foundations—literally and culturally—for the Columbus we know today”. The “oldest neighborhoods” show the “evolution” one step at time. The first place that the article talked about was Flytown. It got its name from the fact that in this place the “wooden homes” flew up over night, hence flytown. In the 1800s it was a place where Irish, Welsh and German immigrants came here to work in near by factories. It was in an area that is now the Arena District and Victorian Village. As time went by Italian and other families moved in. By the mid-20th century it was “erased by urban renewal”. The next place mentioned in the article is Franklinton. This area was found and developed by Lucas Sullivant in 1797 as the “first non-Indigenous settlement in Central Ohio”. I agree with the article that it “has always been a neighborhood of resilience”. It survived, barely, in the 1913 flood. Then came its trials in an “economic decline”. It seems now it is in a promise and movement of “new life”. There are galleries with artists and developers taking a huge interest in that area. Another of the areas immersing in the growth and development of Columbus was King-Lincoln Bronzeville. This is an area that was developed in the 1900s as an “epicenter of Black culture and business in Columbus”. There was jazz music and “prominent figures in medicine, law, and the arts”. It was “impacted” by urban renewal much like Flytown was. Next on the early places in Columbus was Clintonville. According to the article the “arrival of the streetcar system” contributed to the transformation “into a full-fledged suburb”. In the mid 1800s it was “dotted with summer homes and religious campgrounds for families escaping the bustle of downtown”. The area of Olde Towne “was once home to some of the city’s wealthiest residents”.  In the mid-20th century there was a time of decline but has made a rebound in “artists, renovators, and urban pioneers.” German Village is the last of the areas in and around Columbus that made this city what it is today. The article mentions German Village as “arguably the crown jewel of Columbus’s historic neighborhoods”. It was developed by German immigrants.  It “thrived with businesses, breweries, and churches”. There are still tidy brick homes and cobblestone streets. This area of growth also went through a “decline” and disrepair. But it “fought back”. In the 1960s groups put into work a preservation of the “neighborhood’s architectural integrity”. The article put the preservation work nicely saying, “embracing the present, and it’s one of the most desirable places to live in the city”. In ending the article “not just where Columbus has been, but where it’s going—and who helped build it along the way.”

I’m going out to lunch/dinner. 

Joy