SAINT LUKE’S BISHOP SPENCER PLACE December 2018 ACTIVITY KEY

Celebration

Movie Jazz Carol Festival at Community Christian Church Sunday, December 2 | BSP bus departs at 3:15 p.m.

Theatre Sign up for the bus to the annual with Tim Whitmer, Millie jazz Christmas celebration at Edwards, and many other BSP Community Christian Church, and Kansas City jazz favorites. Arts

Music

Nature

Speaker Series | Gen. Excursion Printmaking Class | Michael Symanski Nelson-Atkins Artists Tuesday, December 4 Wednesday, December 5 Speaker 3:00 p.m. | Westport Room 3:00 p.m. | Activity Center During his 37-year career, Christine Boutros and Jackie retired Major General Michael W. Niekamp from the Nelson- Cocktails Symanski commanded the 89th Atkins Museum will be here to Reserve Readiness Command lead a hands-on printmaking and USAR theater level logistics workshop. The irst 15 residents Dining command. He served as a to sign up will create small gift Battalion Commander in Desert cards and wrapping paper. Join Cofee & Storm, Deputy Commanding us! No printmaking experience Conversation General for logistics in the or creativity needed! Balkans, and on active duty on the Army Staf in the Pentagon Class as the Assistant Deputy Chief Christmas Day of Staf of Operations for Tuesday, December 25 Mobilization and Reserve Afairs. The BSP oice, Salon, and Health He has represented the Army in Bistro will be closed. the Joint Operations “Tank.”

This is a monthly magazine for residents of Saint Luke’s Bishop Spencer Place.

Bishop Spencer Place 4301 Madison Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111 816-931-4277 BishopSpencerPlace.org 2 Spirituality & All That TubaChristmas Abigail Pabst Student Jazz Friday, December 7 Piano Recital Wednesday, December 5 BSP bus departs at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 8 | 2:00 p.m. BSP bus departs at 6:30 p.m. Madison Living Room The irst TubaChristmas took This month, jazz group A La place December 22, 1974, at Come listen to holiday music Mode, featuring Clayton and Rockefeller Plaza in New York. played by Abigail Pabst’s piano Jessica DeLong, will perform Kansas City’s irst TubaChristmas students! We’ll have cookies and with Tim Whitmer and The was in 1979 when the group plenty of holiday cheer. Abigail is Consort Band. performed for the lighting of our former BSP Activities Assistant. the Crown Center Christmas Sign up with the concierge. tree and has happened annually since, often bringing together more than 500 tuba and euphonium players.

The irst 12 to sign up will get free tickets. We need to leave a bit early as this is irst- come, irst-served seating for a Saints & Singers popular event! Sunday, December 9, 1:30 p.m. Speaker Series | Jefrey Madison Living Room Weidman | William Sign up with the concierge. Rimmer: A Yankee Our own Chaplain Kathy Hall and her friends make up Saints Michelangelo and Singers—a musical group Thursday, December 6 that blends whimsy with folk and 3:00 p.m. | Westport Room Celtic music, with guitars, lute, Teacher, reviewer, presenter, recorder, keyboard, and ham- writer, and BSP resident Jefrey mered dulcimer. The trio loves to Weidman’s knowledge of art, play together and hopes you will art history, and library science Movie Classic with join them as they perform some of their favorite Christmas carols. is exceptional. He has a Ph.D. in Robert Butler | Drums art history and a master’s degree Along the Mohawk in library science and was Head Friday, December 7 | 2:00 p.m. of Reference and Collection Westport Room Development in the Spencer Spa and Salon gift Art Reference Library at the 1939’s Drums Along the certiicates are available Nelson-Atkins Musuem of Art. Mohawk, directed by John for purchase from Ford, stars Claudette Colbert Jefrey will discuss painter and the concierges. The and Henry Fonda as newlyweds sculptor William Rimmer, one of certiicates make perfect trying to start a farm in the the artists who exhibited in the gifts for your loved ones. Mohawk Valley on the New groundbreaking 1913 Armory York frontier as the American Show of modern art in New York. Revolution begins. 3 Lunch & Learn | NEW Speaker Series | Speaker Series | Carter SERIES: Brain Myths Jermaine Reed Rostron: Three Mini- Exploded Tuesday, December 11 Documentaries on KC Monday, December 10 2:30 p.m. | Westport Room Thursday, December 13 Lunch | 11:30 a.m.–12:00 noon 3:00 p.m. | Westport Room Kansas City mayoral candidate Program | starts at 12:00 noon and Kansas City Councilman Carter Rostron is an eighth grader Westport Room Jermaine Reed was reared in at St Paul’s Episcopal Day School. A We continue the Great Kansas City, and graduated budding ilmmaker, he has won irst Courses DVD series Brain from Northeast High and the place trophies for his submissions Myth’s Exploded: Lessons from University of Missouri, Columbia. to the Kansas City International Neuroscience. Lunch begins He received an Executive Film Festival youth competition promptly at 11:30. Two talks Masters in Public Administration over the past ive years. He begin at noon and run until 1:00. from UMKC. He has served two completed his irst documentary, Lunch will be provided terms representing the Third about a haunted UMKC mansion, (10 points). Sign up with the District on the Kansas City was when he was eight years old. concierge by Saturday, city council. Carter will show three ive-minute December 8, to allow PB&J documentary ilms, The Epperson time to prepare lunch. House—A Kansas City Ghost Story, The Missouri Irish Brigade, and A Remarkable Gift—The Linda Hall Library. He will discuss and answer questions about the ilms.

Betse & Clarke Duo Wednesday, December 12 Kansas City Symphony 3:00 p.m. Woodwind Duo Madison Living Room Monday, December 10, 3:00 p.m. Betse & Clarke return to BSP. Madison Living Room Betse plays the iddle and sings, and Clarke plays banjo and Dinnertime Caroling | Join us for the woodwind duo guitar. Both are classically-trained Episcopal Diocese of of Rebecca Tobin and Nicole musicians who became folk music West Missouri Youth Haywood. Rebecca has served as and history scholars. The duo Friday, December 14 associate principal clarinet with traces songs and iddle tunes 6:00 p.m. | Madison Living Room the Kansas City Symphony since back to their roots. Related & Canterbury Dining Room 2017. Nicole is acting second stories recall a sense of place bassoon for the 2018–19 season The youth choir of the Episcopal and meaning in the music. and was recently appointed Diocese of West Missouri will Betse & Clarke have a lot of fun assistant principal and second entertain us with a few holiday performing, and it’s catching— bassoon of the Grant Park carols during our Friday singing along is encouraged! Orchestra in Chicago. evening dinner.

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 9:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11–12 Librarian Hours WR 11:00 Rosary CH 7:00 Movie JLR

2 Hanukkah 3 4 5 6 7 8 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 9:30 Tai Chi AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 9:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11–1 Brunch CDR 10:30 Stretch AC 11:00 Advent Studies WR 10:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 11:00 Bus Departs to 11–12 Librarian Hours WR 3:00 Movie JLR 1:00 Blood Pressure Check 109 1:00 Tai Chi AC 2:00 Life Enrichment Committee P TubaChristmas ] 11:00 Rosary CH 11:00 Welcome Committee A 2–4 CC Bank MLR 3:15 Bus Departs to Jazz 12:00 Lunch & Bridge Mixer CDR ] 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 3:00 Printmaking Class with 2:00 Movie Classic with Robert 2:00 Abigail Pabst Student Piano Carol Festival | A Nelson-Atkins Artists AC 2:30 Dining Committee A Butler | Drums Along the 1:00 Art Class AC 2:30 Alterations ] 3:00 Speaker Series | Jefrey Recital MLR Community Christian 1:30 Dollar Tree Trip ] 3:00 Speaker Series | Retired 6:30 Bus Departs for Spirituality Weidman | William Rimmer: Mohawk WR 7:00 Movie JLR Church ] 4:30 Men’s Club P General Michael Symanski WR & All hat Jazz ] A Yankee Michelangelo WR 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 9:30 Tai Chi AC 9:30 Catholic Mass CH 10:00 Stretch AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 9:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11–1 Brunch CDR 10:30 Stretch AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11:00 Resident Council WR 1:30 Chair Volleyball WR 11–12 Librarian Hours WR 1:30 Saints & Singers 11:30 Lunch & Learn | Brain Myths 11:00 Advent Studies WR 1:00 Tai Chi AC 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 6:00 Dinnertime Caroling | 11:00 Rosary CH Dulcimer Trio MLR Exploded WR ] 1:00 Blood Pressure Check 109 3:00 Betse & Clarke Duo MLR 2–4 CC Bank MLR Diocese of Western Missouri 11:15 Bus Departs to Plaza 3:00 Movie JLR 3:00 KC Symphony Woodwind 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 3:00 Speaker Series | Carter Youth MLR | CDR heater for Opera in HD | Duo MLR 2:30 Speaker Series | Mayoral Rostron: hree Mini- La Traviata ] 4:30 Ladies’ Club P Candidate Jermaine Reed WR Documentaries on KC WR 7:00 Movie JLR 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 LIFE ENRICHMENT | INDEPENDENT LIVING 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 9:30 Tai Chi AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 9:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11–1 Brunch CDR 10:30 Stretch AC 11:00 Advent Studies WR 10:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11:00 Friendly Neighbor 1:30 Chair Volleyball WR 11–12 Librarian Hours WR 1:15 Bus Departs to KC 1:00 Art Class AC 1:00 Blood Pressure Check 109 11:00 Café Hope CH Committee WR 3:00 he Dickens Carolers MLR 11:00 Rosary CH Chorale Holiday Music | 1:30 Walmart Trip ] 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 12–2:30 Podiatrist AC 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 7:00 Movie JLR Unity Church ] 3:00 Art Blocks | German 3:00 Speaker Series | Actor Tuc 1:00 Tai Chi WR 2–4 CC Bank MLR 3:00 Movie JLR Expressionism–Cubism | Watkins WR 3:00 Pianist Humberto Sierralta 4:30 Eggnog & Singalong | Bert Donna Houtteman WR MLR Bates and Rich Hill MLR

23 Christmas Eve 24 Christmas Day25 Kwanzaa 26 27 28 29 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 9:30 Catholic Mass CH 9:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11–1 Brunch CDR 10:30 Stretch AC OFFICES | SALON | BISTRO 10:00 Stretch AC 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 10:00 Stretch AC 11–12 Librarian Hours WR JLR 1:30 Original 1951 Broadcast: 2–4 CC Bank MLR 2:00 New Year Movie with Robert 11:00 Rosary CH 3:00 Movie CLOSED 10:30 Grocery Store Trip ] Amahl & he Night Visitors 3:00 he Great Courses | 2:45 Bus Departs for Plaza Library Butler | When Harry Met 7:00 Movie JLR WR Impressionism WR Pick up at 4:00 ] Sally WR 4:00 Eucharist CH NO SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES 3:00 Guitarist Dan Bliss MLR

New Year’s Eve 30 31 Spa and Salon gift certificates 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH A Abbey CDR Canterbury Dining P Pub 11–1 Brunch CDR 10:30 Stretch AC are available for purchase AC Activity Center Room WR Westport Room 3:00 Movie JLR 1:00 Art Class AC from the concierges. (above Bistro) CH Chapel 109 Apt. 109 Madison 5–7 New Year’s Eve Party with The certificates make perfect ART Art Gallery JLR Jeferson Living Room ] Sign up at the Don Accurso Orchestra B Bistro MLR Madison Living Room reception desk MLR | CDR | P gifts for your loved ones.

DECEMBER 2018

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 A Abbey MLR Madison Living Room 11:00 Exercise CD CD Coventry Dining Room RR Room to Room 11:00 Rosary CH CDR Canterbury Dining TR Therapy Room 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck Room YD York Dining Room RR CH Chapel YG York Garden 2:00 Saturday Movie CD CL Coventry Living Room YL York Lounge ] PFL = Pets For Life

2 Hanukkah 3 4 5 6 7 8 10:00 Holy Eucharist 11:00 Stretch & 10:00 Cofee & Donuts 11:00 Stretch & 11:00 Walking Club 9:30 Baking | Christmas 11:00 Exercise CD CH Strengthen CD RR Strengthen CD 1:30 Needlework Hour Cookies TR 11:00 Rosary CH 2:15 Sunday Movie CD 1:00 Music herapy RR 11:00 Walking Club 1:00 PFL | Jan & CD 11:00 Stretch & 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck 3:00 Bingo YL 1:30 Manicures RR Badger RR 3:30 Bingo CD Strengthen CD RR 3:00 Guitarist Nick 1:30 Christmas Cookie Gadbois YL 3:30 Bingo CD 1:30 Prayer Group CD 6:30 Bingo Night YL 2:00 Saturday Movie CD Decorating TR 2:00 Abigail Pabst 4:30 Men’s Club P 6:15 Game Night YL 3:00 Pianist Lenn LIFE ENRICHMENT | ASSISTED LIVING LIFE ENRICHMENT | ASSISTED Anderson YL 2:30 Movie Matinee CD Student Recital MLR 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10:00 Holy Eucharist 11:00 Stretch & 9:30 Catholic Mass CH 11:00 Stretch & 11:00 Walking Club 10:30 Resident Council 10:00 Friendship Baptist CH Strengthen CD 11:00 Walking Club Strengthen CD 3:30 Bingo CD TR Church Choir YD 1:30 Saints & Singers 1:00 Music herapy RR 1:30 Manicures RR 1:00 PFL | Jan & 6:15 KC Lights Bus 11:00 Stretch & 11:00 Exercise CD Dulcimer Trio 3:00 KC Symphony 3:30 Bingo CD Badger RR Tour | bus departs Strengthen CD 11:00 Rosary CH MLR Woodwind Duo 6:15 Game Night YL 1:30 Prayer Group CD York at 6:30 1:30 Chair Volleyball WR 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck 3:00 Bingo YL MLR 3:00 Betse & Clarke 3:00 Pie of the Month RR RR 4:30 Ladies’ Club P Duo MLR 2:00 Saturday Movie CD 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 10:00 Holy Eucharist 11:00 Stretch & 11:00 Walking Club 10:45 Podiatrist TR 1:30 York/Coventry 11:00 Stretch & 11:00 Exercise CD CH Strengthen CD 1:30 Violinist Wynne 1:00 PFL | Jan & Christmas Party CDR Strengthen CD 11:00 Rosary CH 2:15 Sunday Movie CD 1:00 Music herapy RR Jennings YL Badger RR 4:30 Eggnog & Singalong | 3:00 Dickens Carolers 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck 2:30 Daisy Girl Scout 3:00 Pianist Donna 3:30 Bingo CD 1:30 Prayer Group CD Bert Bates & Rich MLR RR Singers YD Maddox YL 6:15 Game Night YL 3:00 Humberto Hill MLR 2:00 Saturday Movie 3:00 Bingo YL Sierralta MLR 6:30 Bingo Night YL CD

23 Christmas Eve 24 Christmas Day 25Kwanzaa 26 27 28 29 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 3:00 Holiday Singalong | 2:15 Sunday Movie CD 11:00 Stretch & 11:00 Walking Club 9:30 Catholic Mass CH 11:00 Exercise CD Donna Maddox YL OFFICES | SALON | 11:00 Rosary CH 3:00 Bingo YL 4:00 Eucharist CH BISTRO CLOSED Strengthen CD 1:30 Manicures RR 11:00 Stretch & Strengthen CD 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck 30 31 1:00 PFL | Jan & 3:00 Guitarist Dan New Year’s Eve NO SCHEDULED Badger RR 1:30 Chair Volleyball RR 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 11:00 Stretch & Strengthen CD Bliss MLR ACTIVITIES 1:30 Prayer Group CD WR 2:00 Saturday Movie 2:15 Sunday Movie CD 5–7 New Year’s Eve | Don 6:30 Bingo Night YL 3:00 Bingo YL Accurso Orchestra 3:00 Pianist Lenn CD MLR | CDR | P Anderson YL

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 A Abbey MLR Madison Living Room 10:15 Music Moves YL CD Coventry Dining Room RR Room to Room 11:00 Rosary CH CDR Canterbury Dining TR Therapy Room 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck Room YD York Dining Room CH Chapel RR YG York Garden 2:30 Saturday Aternoon CL Coventry Living Room YL York Lounge ] PFL = Pets For Life Adventure YL

2 Hanukkah 3 4 5 6 7 8 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 10:00 Music Moves YL 10:00 Music Moves YL 10:00 Music Moves YL 9:30 Baking | Christmas 10:15 Music Moves YL 10:00 Music Moves YL 10:30 Current News YL 10:30 Current News YL Cookies TR 11:00 Rosary CH 2:00 Rev. Boyd & Mt. 10:30 Current News YL 10:30 Current News YL Olive Missionary 1:30 Devotions YD 1:30 Deck the Halls 2:30 Holiday Cards YL 10:30 Resident Council A 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck 1:30 Manicures RR 3:00 Pianist Lenn YL 6:30 Bingo Night YL 2:00 Cookie Decorating RR Baptist Church 3:00 Guitarist Nick 3:00 Bingo YD YD Choir YD 6:15 Game Night YL Anderson YL 2:00 Abigail Pabst Gadbois YD 3:00 Caroling with Carl Student Recital MLR 3:00 Bingo YD YL 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 10:00 Music Moves YL 9:30 Catholic Mass CH 10:00 Music Moves YL 10:00 Music Moves YL 10:00 Exercise YL 10:00 Friendship Baptist 1:30 Saints & Singers 10:30 Current News YL 10:00 Music Moves YL 10:30 Current News YL 10:30 Current News YL 10:30 Current News YL Church Choir YD Dulcimer Trio 1:30 Manicures RR 10:30 Current News YL 1:30 Card & Board 2:00 Crats for Giving YL 2:00 Pie of the Month 11:00 Rosary CH LIFE ENRICHMENT | SKILLED NURSING & REHAB MLR 3:00 KC Symphony 1:30 Devotions YD Games YL 6:15 KC Lights Bus Club YL | RR 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck 2:00 PFL | Charlie the Woodwind Duo 3:00 Bingo YD 3:00 Betse & Clarke Tour | bus departs 3:00 Fireside Singalong RR Pom RR MLR 6:15 Game Night YL Duo MLR York at 6:30 YL 2:30 Saturday Aternoon Adventure YL 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 10:00 Music Moves YL 10:00 Music Moves YL 10:00 Music Moves YL 1:30 York/Coventry 10:00 Exercise YL 10:15 Music Moves YL 1:30 Praise & Worship 10:30 Current News YL 10:30 Current News YL 10:30 Current News YL Christmas Party | 1:30 Movie Matinee | 11:00 Rosary CH YD 1:30 Manicures RR 1:30 Violinist Wynne 1:30 Card & Board Entertainment All I Want for 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck 2:30 Daisy Girl Scout 3:00 Holiday Singalong Jennings YD Games YL by Tom Roberts Christmas YL RR Singers YD with Donna 3:00 Bingo YD 3:00 Humberto CDR 3:00 Dickens Carolers 2:30 Saturday Aternoon 3:00 Bingo YD Maddox YL 6:15 Game Night YL Sierralta MLR 6:30 Git Box Bingo YL MLR Adventure YL

23 24 Christmas Eve Christmas Day 25 26 27 28 29 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 3:00 Holiday Singalong YL 1:30 Praise & Worship YD 6:00 Movie | he Nativity 10:00 Music Moves YL 10:00 Music Moves YL 9:30 Catholic Mass CH 10:15 Music Moves YL OFFICES | SALON | 1:00 Movie Matinee YL 10:30 Current News YL 10:00 Exercise YL 11:00 Rosary CH 2:00 PFL | Charlie RR Story YL BISTRO CLOSED 3:00 Pianist Lenn 3:00 Guitarist Dan 10:30 Current News YD 1:30 PFL | Al & Chuck 30 New Year’s Eve 31 NO SCHEDULED Anderson YL Bliss MLR 2:30 Word Games YL RR 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 5–7 New Year’s Eve | Don ACTIVITIES 6:30 Bingo Night YL 2:30 Saturday Aternoon 1:30 Praise & Worship YD Accurso Orchestra 2:00 PFL | Charlie RR MLR | CDR | P Adventure YL Metropolitan Opera at ART BLOCKS | Donna Humberto Sierralta the Plaza Cinemark | Houtteman Wednesday, December 19 La Traviata Monday, December 17 3:00 p.m. | Madison Living Room 3:00 p.m. | Westport Room Saturday, December 15 BSP welcomes back international BSP bus departs at 11:15 a.m. Donna Houtteman is the leading award-winning pianist and Enjoy the Met’s Live in HD voice behind the Kansas City composer Humberto Sierralta for movie-theater transmission of Art Institute’s Art Sofa Series. an afternoon of holiday music. one of Verdi’s most beloved This month Donna will discuss operas, La Traviata. art from German Expressionism through Cubism. Sign up with the concierge.

Eggnog & Singalong | Bert Bates & Rich Hill Thursday, December 20 Speaker Series | 4:30 p.m. | Madison Living Room KC Chorale Holiday Actor Tuc Watkins Music | Unity Church Resident Bert Bates will Tuesday, December 18 generously provide eggnog Sunday, December 16 3:00 p.m. BSP bus departs at 1:15 p.m. (spiked and not) for what has Westport Room become an annual party, our Join us for an afternoon of BSP is delighted to holiday sing-along with a BSP holiday music, including welcome actor, producer, favorite, pianist Rich Hill. popular jazzy carols such as and Kansas City native White Christmas, The Night Tuc Watkins, the grandson Before Christmas, and I’ll Be of the late BSP resident Home for Christmas, performed Margaret Watkins. Tuc is by the Kansas City Chorale. well-known for his roles The Chorale will be performing on television shows, at Unity Church on the Plaza. including The irst 12 residents who sign and , up will receive a complimentary and in movies such as The The Dickens Carolers ticket on a irst come, irst- Mummy. Margaret was Friday, December 21 served seating arrangement at very proud of his recent 3:00 p.m. | Madison Living Room Unity Church. performance in the revival of The Boys in the Band on The Dickens Carolers, Kansas Sign up with the concierge by Broadway. Please join us as City’s premiere professional Wednesday, December 12. Tuc discusses his work in Christmas caroling company, ilm and on the stage. come costumed in beautiful turn-of-the-century attire! 5 ChaplainCORNERs

The Great Courses | Impressionism In December, we are bombarded with bargains, swamped with Wednesday, December 26 seasonal music, and inundated with invitations to this party 3:00 p.m. | Westport Room or that performance. It’s a busy, exhausting, delightful time Join us for the Great Courses of year for everybody, whatever their reasons for the season. series, From Monet to Van Gogh: For Christians and Jews, December is a holy month. Christians A History of Impressionism, to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the central igure of Christianity, learn about the most famous on December 25. Jews celebrate the feast of Hanukkah, artistic movement in history. which marks the rededication of the Second Temple after the Maccabean Revolt, lighting candles for eight days beginning on December 2 this year. In our current divisive climate, may this December remind us of things we do have in common. Families and the joy of gathering together. The desire to give good gifts to our loved ones, including gifts that cannot be purchased: a compliment, a listening ear, a shoulder to lean on. And for people of faith, the love of God, who created and sustains our world and Guitarist Dan Bliss everyone who lives there. Thursday, December 27 3:00 p.m. | Madison Living Room The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. Dan Bliss, inspired by Kansas (Is. 9.2) City’s blues and jazz traditions, —Chaplain Kathy Hall has played with Kelley Hunt, Ron Fleeman, and his own Roman Catholic Mass band, Bluetonium. Father Bob | Tuesday, December 11 | 9:30 a.m | Chapel Father Bob | Friday, December 28 | 9:30 a.m. | Chapel Advent Studies Tuesdays | December 4, 11, 18 | 11:00 a.m. | Chapel A Thrill of Hope: the Christmas Story in Word and Art is a 6-part DVD series that combines commentary and artwork, so we can learn about the Nativity from two perspectives.

Pray the Rosary New Year Movie | When Saturdays | 11:00 a.m. | Chapel Harry Met Sally Amahl & The Night Visitors Friday, December 28 Monday | December 24 | 1:30 p.m. | Westport Room 2:00 p.m. | Westport Room Please join us for the original 1951 55-minute broadcast. New Year’s Eve proves pivotal Christmas Eve Service in this 1989 romantic comedy, written by Nora Ephron, directed Monday | December 24 | 4:00 p.m. | Chapel by Rob Reiner, and starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. 6 GardenGarden HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIME

Janet Klem, December 3

Helen Stefanov, December 4 Those mid-November snows quickly eliminated nearly all of Delbert Clevenger, December 5 our lowers. But we have a few Pat Smith, December 8 surprises ready for next spring!

Barbara Weary, December 15 A Mystery is Alive in Bishop Spencer Place Lu Mitchell, December 18 The Shadow may know, but we do Louise Wagnon, December 18 not know from whence came our ive Columbines. One of these, a Anne Quackenbush, December 21 Golden Columbine, appeared irst Marilyn Benson, December 22 in our Memorial Garden in spring 2017. Vicki Johnson identiied Dick Houston, December 22 it properly. It is one of many Ron Spencer, December 24 variations of Columbines that have grown in North America for 10,000 Cathy Campbell, December 27 to 40,000 years.

Don Carlton, December 28 Spring 2018 surprised us with four other Columbines in four diferent Linda Talbott, December 29 colors. But some time last summer, three of these disappeared. The work of an overly-ambitious IN LOVING MEMORY grounds keeper? We can ind no knowledge or Mary Edith Lillis record of the purchase of any Naida Quinlan Columbines, ever, for the Memorial Garden. We have come to the Janet Borron conclusion that the seeds for these Gloria Henshaw beautiful and welcome plants have been deposited by robins or perhaps a fortuitous wind. Can any resident solve this mystery? The CONGRATULATIONS! Shadow has retired.

Hope all enjoy a happy holiday BPS is pleased to announce that season and save your spent lower Roberta Butler from the EVS bulbs for the Garden Committee! Department is the employee of the quarter for the third quarter. Please —Bobbie Ellis congratulate Roberta when you see her! 7 New Year’s Eve Party WITH THE DON ACCURSO ORCHESTRA

Monday, December 31, 5:00–7:00 p.m. Madison Living Room | Canterbury Dining Room | Pub

We are saddened by the passing of our dear friend Don, but as his lovely wife mentioned in the remembrance of her husband, “the band plays on.” We are privileged to welcome Don’s Orchestra to our New Year’s Eve celebration.

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