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Hanover, Germany. Post-WWII destruciton.
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Germany,
Damascus, Jerusalem, Greece, New Guinea
Looked through the first of three boxes of Grandpa's
black & white 8x10 photographs
ABOVE
Papua New Guinea, 1975(6?). L-R Mary Elizabeth Schultz,
Edna Scherle, George Schultz, Drucilla, Fred Scherle.
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Paged
through photo albums
50s through the 90s
And
one from maybe the 20s, 10s? of the Feegers, Grandma's mother's family.
ABOVE
Mountain bluebird. In the San Antonio hills. We saw
several cardinals from the balcony, but they neverc consented to pose
when we had our cameras available.
Worked
outside
Restored a couple paths from beneath the rampaging
jasmine.
Half
Price Books
Sold them a pickup-truck load of books for $135
After
we got there, that is. A general idea of where we were going to didn't
prove to get us there quickly; faint memories of I-410, U.S. 281,
a strip mall, and a candle shop nearby were not enough to pinpoint
it without some backtracking.
While
we were waiting for them to price the books, there was a bad accident
on the road outside -- a large SUV (with a massive cow-catcher on
the front) had been coming down a hill and around a slight curve and
plowed into the driver's side of a car turning out from the parking
lot. Many people called 911 right away, though it took a little while
for an ambulance to arrive.
Two
Half Price Books employees went right out and started directing traffic;
someone else said "it happens every week."
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A
household in transition
The pool table was covered with items and the living
room was in a constant state of flux. Grandma is moving, primarily
back to Columbus, and the house has to be gone through.
Bookings
What to keep, what to sell?
To
San Antonio
Smooth
flights
Despite repeated warnings of turbulence
Flew
Delta through Atlanta
Notes
from the Underground
Feodor Dostoevsky
Got
a start on it anyway, it was difficult to get into. Or maybe that
was because I felt obliged to keep some portion of consciousness attuned
to the constant interruptions of the zone boarding plan (isn't this
just yet another meaningless number to print on your ticket and make
you locate?) and the flight crew's seat belt admonitions.
ABOVE
ART. Sculpture straddling a street on the campus
of the Columbus College of Art & Design.
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Clean-up
day
Pubs, deadlines, sections, fronts; trying to get them
all in order for an absence, even if relatively short. No Wednesdays
off, so no real deadlines missed.
False
alarm on Workforce Columbus special section -- rescheduled from Friday
deadline to April and then back again, all in the space of a couple
of hours.
Gray
and rainy where most Wednesdays are sunny and beautiful.
ABOVE
First Congregational Church. East Broad Street, Columbus,
Ohio.
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Election
day
Kerry rolls in Ohio.
Mitchell defeats State Senator Price for renomination. Surprising.
COSI levy defeated. Unsurprising.
Other
downtowns
Cincinnati has troubles too
Huge
task awaits development expert | Cincinnati Enquirer
In
Cincinnati, downtown stakeholders are counting on Leeper's deal-making
mentality. The Queen City in recent years has listened as a string
of consultants and development experts preached silver-bullet solutions
for its economic and social challenges.
While
the talk went on, Cincinnati continued to lose residents and jobs
to the suburbs. A five-decade population slide accelerated in the
1990s with a loss of 9 percent of its residents. The city lost another
7,400 residents from 2000 to 2002 and its 2002 population of 323,885
ranked Cincinnati as the nation's 55th largest city.
In
1950, Cincinnati was 18th.
The population shift to the suburbs, accompanied by waves of office
and mall-building, has pressured the downtown retail core.
Similar
cities share drain of young people | Cincinnati Enquirer
"The
problem is they're not attracting new jobs here," said Dean
Ronstadt, 27, of Bethel Park [Pittsburgh]. "People don't mind
spending public money for improvements if the city is working to
keep up its end of the bargain - that is, creating the jobs and
keeping businesses here."
Jobs
at Wal-Mart don't count.
The
oldest benediction
Archaeological
sites in Israel
The
Lord bless you and keep you.
The Lord make his face to shine upon you.
and be gracious to you
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you
and give you peace.
This
biblical text, dated to the 7th century BCE, is the oldest known
to date and pre-dates the texts found in the Dead Sea area by about
500 years. The word yhwh (the name of the Lord in Hebrew) appears
in writing for the first time ever. The benediction quoted from
the Book of Numbers was recited by the Temple priests when blessing
the congregation; here it is found in writing and for individual
use.
(Via Paleojudaica)
Been
a long time
...
been a long time that I'm waiting
I've
Been a long time that I'm blown
I've been a long time that I've wandered
Through the people I have known
Oh, if you would and you could
Straighten my new mind's eye.
Northern Sky | Nick Drake
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Three Creeks Metro Park.
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ABOVE
Three Creeks Metro Park. Big Walnut Creek (center
left and continuing to the right) at the confluence of Alum Creek
(lower left) and Blacklick Creek (top). Southeast Columbus, Ohio.
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Lunch
with Rick
Talked over computer issues.
ABOVE
What once was. Not much more than a week ago, ice
covered the earth. (At least the Ohio portion of it). This remains.
Three
Creeks Metro Park, Columbus, Ohio.
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Computer
setup
Helped Tony install an OS and get his programs loaded
and running.
Met
Abby, his cat.
Steal
Away
Steal away to Jesus.
Thama
sang the solo beautifully.
Pastor
Hudson's sermon was against those who see God through the prism of
his wrath.
ABOVE
Slate Run Living Historical Farm; enjoying the sun
and warmth.
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