SAINT LUKE'S BISHOP SPENCER PLACE - May 2020
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SAINT LUKE’S BISHOP SPENCER PLACE May 2020
Stay A few words from the CEO…
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand
times: “It feels like we’re living Bill Murray’s
Groundhog Day.” Without the landmarks in
our routine helping us differentiate timelines,
it seems we are living the same day over and
More Fitness! over.
Kristin, our Arthritis Exercise
In normal times, we would be getting outside
instructor on Tuesday/Thursday
and going to shows or baseball games or any number of
recommends these online
other things we love to do in Kansas City in the spring. But
classes using resistance bands—
these are not normal times, and I don’t know about you, but
until her return!
the monotony can get to me. What do I do to break up my
Senior Fitness with Meredith routine? I have video calls with my children and grandchildren
bit.ly/3aek1uK who are spread across the country. I take a bike ride. Or I just
bit.ly/34BxBXU
sit on my patio with a book and a glass of wine.
(a selection of videos)
The point to these activities is to break up the day so they
Relax don’t all feel the same. We’ve included some activities and
UCLA Guided Meditations ideas in this month’s Ambassador to help you break up your
bit.ly/34OEp4R day—check out the puzzles and the BINGO card! We hope you
Audio Dharma have fun playing along, and I can’t wait to see the artwork (see
bit.ly/3bhO4mU the BINGO card and you’ll know what I’m referencing). I’m so
proud of everyone in our community and how we are taking
Apps for Phone or Tablet
care of each other—let’s keep up the good work!
Calm
Headspace Yours in health,
Have Fun Dee
Art Trivia Games
sporcle.com/games/tags/art
Word Games
earlyaccess.pogo.com/
Travel at Home
Viking Cruises Videos HAPPY BIRTHDAY
viking.tv
House Beautiful Garden Tours
bit.ly/3cjsH4C David With, May 1 Inge Brooks, May 24
Tanya Palmer, May 6 Midori Houston, May 24
Michael Walling, May 6 Mary Esther Weishaar,
May 25
Emily Dawson, May 15
Dahlgren McElwain,
Mary Abbott, May 16
May 28
Bess LeFevre, May 17
Dorrie Virden, May 31
Pat Russell, May 23
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See if you can fill in every square!
Stand in front of Sing some of
Enjoy a piece Call a friend or a chair and try your favorite
Watch a new
of fresh fruit family member to balance on songs—OUT
program on
at least once and talk for one foot for 10 LOUD!
KCPT-TV.
a week. 10 minutes. seconds. Repeat
with other foot. Every day.
Clean out
Watch a funny
Start a new Finish that one of your Donate to your
movie—laugh
book. book! most-cluttered favorite cause.
out loud!
drawers.
Write a haiku Read and act
Handwrite Start a
and turn it on a spiritual
FREE
three letters crossword
in to Helen. passage or
this month and puzzle and try
Anonymity meaningful
mail them. to finish it.
is fine! quote.
Have a fun Wash your
Do 20 leg
conversation hands for
Have a bowl of Drink at least marches and
with two 20 seconds
ice cream or 4 glasses of 20 bicep curls
fellow BSP each time
two cookies! water today. each day this
residents—at throughout
month.
a distance! the day.
Try to draw your Take part in our
Sit up straight,
Listen to favorite famous Great Courses
close your Dance in your
KCUR radio work of art and series “America’s
eyes, and chair or in your
to support turn it in to Founding
breathe deeply kitchen for five
Kansas City’s Helen. No skills Fathers.” See
for 10 breaths minutes a day.
gem! needed. Just Ch. 1851 for
each day.
have fun! ] details.
] If we have enough participation, we’ll have a fun(ny) exhibit in the BSP Art Gallery! You can sign your
work or not. Thank you!
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LIFE ENRICHMENT | INDEPENDENT LIVING MAY 2020
& Holy Trinity
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
May Day 1 2
3 4 Cinco de 5 National Nurses Day 6 7 National Have 8 Lost Sock 9
2:00 Movie Monday Mayo 3:00 Great Courses a Coke Day Memorial Day
Channel 1851 “America’s Founding
Fathers”
Channel 1851
Mother’s Day 10 11 12 13 14 OUTDOOR CONCERT! 15 Armed 16
2:00 Movie Monday 3:00 Great Courses A La Mode Jazz Quartet Forces
Channel 1851 “America’s Founding 3:00 p.m. Day
Fathers” Madison Garden/Jefferson
Channel 1851 Parking Lot
Weather Permitting
17 18 19 20 National Waitstaff 21 22 23
2:00 Movie Monday 3:00 Great Courses Day
Channel 1851 “America’s Founding Thank your PB&J server!
Fathers”
Channel 1851
24 Memorial Day 25 26 27 National
28 29 National Mint 30
2:00 Movie Monday 3:00 Great Courses Hamburger Day Julep Day
Channel 1851 “America’s Founding
Fathers”
Channel 1851
Pentecost 31
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6
Across: 2. Helen; 5. Madison; 9. Dee; 10 puzzles;
11. Nichols; 12. Canterbury; 13. Frank; 14. Westport
Down: 1. Mendi; 3. Evelyn; 4. COVID; 6. Spencer;
7. Windsor Care; 8. Jefferson; 10. PBJ; 12. Chiefs 14
Answers
12. Super Bowl winner 4 9
10. Dining partner
13 12
8. Four-story apartment building 1 7 6 3 9
7. In-home nursing care
6. Bishop’s name
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9 4 6
eradicated
4. Can’t wait for this virus to be 9 2 5 6 4 10
3. New nurse director in York 9 8
1. Jayhawk lover 1 7 8
Down
7 6 5
14. Conference room
6 7 3 4 8 1 5
13. New administrator in York
12. Dining room
5 3 1 8 4
11. Kansas City developer
10. Corners in BSP
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5. Square gardens
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2. BSP activity director
Across 1 BSP Crossword
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Chaplains Garden
CORNER TIME
Ah, the month of May, memorialized in poetry and art and April showers are supposed to bring
song, including this well-known (slightly modified) ditty May flowers. But ours have nobly
popularly known as “While Strolling Through the Park One fought the challenge due to the
Day:” fact that our Memorial Garden had
to withstand April records of rain,
While strolling through the park one day (6 feet away snow, and freezing temperatures.
from everybody else)
In the merry merry month of May (when will this end?) Another problem
I was taken by surprise by a pair of great big eyes is that the current
O’er a face mask in an ugly shade of gray (or green or virus pandemic
yellow…I repeat, when will this end?) has prohibited
meetings of the
Whether or not we’re feeling merry these days, we are now Garden Committee.
in the month of May, named after one or two goddesses who Only the first meeting was possible.
shared the same name—Maia—and were associated with The committee’s normal meetings
fertility, growth, and spring. The Latin poet Ovid claimed include the planning, purchase,
that the month was named after the Latin word “majores,” and planting of plants. It normally
meaning elders—woo hoo, senior citizens, there’s a month purchases many annual flowering
named after us! plants to retain desired beauty of
our garden.
There is no connection between “May,” as in the month
of, and “may,” as in “Please, may we go back to normal?” An aside—If April
But “may” the verb is particularly à propos in our Covid-19 showers bring May
world. May we come through it safely. May we be thankful flowers, what do
for all those who have sustained us on the way and may the Mayflowers bring?
kindness of others inspire us to pass it on. May we learn to
Pilgrims!
be more gracious, especially when it comes to golden rule
as applied to shopping in a pandemic: leave something for —Bobbie Ellis
others just as you would like others to leave something for
you. May we revel in hugs and handshakes and visits when
we are once again able to do those things. In Loving Memory
As we make our way through this challenging time, my
mother’s favorite blessing (slightly modified) seems à propos: Ken Kampfe
May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always
Anita O’Connell
at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall Sylvia Billington
soft upon your fields.
And until we can meet again face to face, until we can
again hold each other,
may God hold you (and me and everybody else) in the We make a living by what we get.
palm of God’s hand. We make a life by what we give.
—Chaplain Kathy Hall —Winston Churchill
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Livestreaming
SERVICES
Today
by Billy Collins
St. Andrew’s Episcopal—Sunday, 8 a.m., 10:15 a.m. U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001–2003
standrewkc.org/live-worship/
If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
All Souls Unitarian Universalist—Sunday, 11:10 a.m. so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze
youtube.com/user/AllSoulsUUChurchKC/live
that it made you want to throw
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception open all the windows in the house
Sunday, 11:00 a.m. and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,
facebook.com/golddomekc
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,
Community Christian Church—Sunday, 10:30 a.m. a day when the cool brick paths
facebook.com/Community4KC and the garden bursting with peonies
bit.ly/2WGqsDH
seemed so etched in sunlight
Conception Abbey that you felt like taking
Sunday, 7:45 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m. a hammer to the glass paperweight
conceptionabbey.org/live on the living room end table,
St. Paul’s Episcopal releasing the inhabitants
Sunday, 10 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m. from their snow-covered cottage
facebook.com/StPaulsKCMO
so they could walk out,
Unity Temple on the Plaza—Sunday, 10:30 a.m. holding hands and squinting
unitytemple.com/services-and-meditations/live-broadcast into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.
Village Presbyterian Church—Sunday, 9:30 a.m.
villagepres.org/online
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