PINNACLE LIVING
May 2020
5000 Fairbanks Ave. Alex. Va. 22311 | 703-797-3800 | Fax 703-820-1816 Celebrating May MAY Global Health and ENTERTAINMENT Fitness Month BIRTHDAYS Friday May 1st th Wednesday May 27 residents 3:00 pm – Lawrence Welk Show Gardening for who celebrate their birthday in May, 4:00 pm-Comedian Rodney Dangerfield Wildlife Month can enjoy a special lunch in their room at lunchtime. Friday 8th Nurses Week Alice Krause 01 3:00 pm –Davis & Bradley
May 6–12 Lucille Sparks 02 4:00 pm-Comedian Richard Pryor
Nancy Rosenberg 08 Public Gardens Day Robert Pope 19 Monday 4th 4:00 pm Opera-Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte May 8 Elesa McFadden 21
Mary Haynes 21 American Indian Day Monday 11th 4:00 pm May 9 Opera-Handel’s Acis 7 Galatea MOMENTS TO TREASURE Mother’s Day: U.S. Friday 15th Chris Gardner and his family 3:00 pm –Josh Urban May 10 picked up a new addition to 4:00 pm-Comedian Myron Cohen O. Henry Pun -Off Day their family. She is a mini May 15 Australian Labradoodle her Monday 18th 4:00 pm name is Dorothy, called Dot Opera-Streetwise Opera National Polka Festival for short. He said the first May 22–24 night was rough, but things Friday 22nd soon smoothed out, and a 3:00 pm –Lawrence Welk Show Memorial Day: U.S. May rhythm was found. 4:00 pm-Comedian Sammy Davis Jr. 25 Sometimes holding a puppy can be the best therapy we Monday 25th 4:00 pm Old Radio could hope for, making Ballet-Swan Lake
moments like these Friday 29th Sunday 4:00 pm something to treasure. Thank 3:00 pm –Davis & Bradley Phillip Marlowe you, Chris. 4:00 pm-Comedian Jerry Lewis
Friday 2:00 pm Jack Benny Stay tuned to Channel 22 for lots more entertainment
VISITOR VISTA Who has loved you Into Being? Charles Wickam Residents who are interested in seeing their loved
ones can do so by going to the Garden Level Solarium even side. The glass dividing the outside There is a scene in It’s a Beautiful Day
Patio and the Solarium is very instrumental in in the Neighborhood, starring Tom making this a success. Family members have Hanks, who plays Fred Rogers. The
already begun util izing it and appreciate it very scene takes place in a Chinese restaurant in Pittsburgh, where Fred much. Please call Mary King at 703-797-3880 if you would like to schedule your family meeting. Rogers lives. He’s there with a cynical reporter, Lloyd Vogel, who’s
interviewing Fred for a piece in MAIL DELIVERY/OUTGOING MAIL Esquire Magazine. Lloyd has quite a bit Your mail is delivered and left outside your door, of anger in him, created by his
Monday, Wednesday and Friday. There are boxes abandonment by a tough father. Fred
in each Lounge on your Floor for “Outgoing Mail.” counsels him to move past the rage and If you are not able to put your outgoing mail in disappointment. Fred tells Lloyd that the box provided in the Lounge, please call down while it’s painful, his father
to the Receptionist and someone will pick it up. inadvertently helped him know right Please leave it outside your door. from wrong and helped him be the loving father he is today. Then comes
the moment. Fred looks him in the eye, SCHEDULE LAUNDRY DAY and before they start to eat the meal, There have been some changes to our norm due says, “Let’s take a minute to think of all to the COVID-19, and scheduling the use of the the people in our lives who have loved
laundry room on each floor was one of them. us into being.” Residents were called and put on a schedule time May you remember those who have to use the laundry room so that multiple people loved you into being and make a would not be in the laundry room at the same special gift to your community time. Thus far it has been working nicely. Thank Samaritan Program in honor/memory you everyone for all your cooperation. If you of them. have not yet scheduled a laundry day/time, If you would like to know more ways in please call Mary King at 703-797-3880. which you can make a difference for your community, please contact GROCERY SHOPPING Charles Wickham, Director of Donor
There are some residents who would like to go Development, at [email protected] or call shopping in the Lemon Tree or even out to the 804-474-8724. grocery store. Residents can now call down to
the Lemon Tree before Wednesday each week, Hermitage Worship Service with their grocery list, and their items will be Every Sunday you can join Kathy purchased and delivered to them on Thursday. If Howell at 11:00 am on channel 22 for you are interested, please call is 703-797-3882. Hermitage Worship service. GOOD NEWS KATHY HOWELL
Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” adapted from “Daily Inspiration”
On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came onstage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. Getting onstage is no small achievement for Perlman.
He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he has braces on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches. His walk across the stage is painful and slow. When he reaches his chair he sits down; slowly, puts his crutches on the floor. He undoes the clasps on his legs, tucks one foot back, and extends the other foot forward. Then he bends down and picks up the violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the conductor and proceeds to play.
But this night in 1995, just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. When it snapped, people later said, "We figured that he would have to get up, put on the clasps again, pick up the crutches and limp off stage - to either find another violin or else find another string for this one." But he didn't.
Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra began, and he played from where he had left off. Of course, everyone knows that it is impossible to play a symphonic work with just three strings. But that night, Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. He changed the fingering for the notes as he played, recomposing the piece in his head. It was magnificent. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. There was an extraordinary outburst of applause from every corner of the auditorium. He smiled, wiped the sweat from this brow, raised his bow to quiet the audience and then he said, not boastfully, but in a quiet, pensive, reverent tone, "You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left."
What a powerful statement! Here is a man who has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, who, all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, finds himself with only three strings. He has found himself with a challenge he has never faced before. He decided to go forward, dealing with circumstances he had never faced before, in front of over 2,000 people. Itzhak Perlman made music with three strings instead of four for probably the first time his life. And the music he made that night with just three strings was more beautiful, more memorable, than any that he had ever made before.
We are in the middle of the worst pandemic the world has seen in the past 100 years. Staying in our apartments, only going out for exercise or to check the mail, 6 feet from others and worried for our friends and loved ones who stay away for our safety and their own. These are frightening times. So, perhaps our task in this bewildering world in which we live is do as Pearlman did. We need to find a new way to the things that are most important to us, such as connect to those we love, to stay as healthy as possible. May God show us each our own way to accomplish that and make music in our changed circumstances. Let’s keep each other in our prayers, no matter where this time takes us, as today’s scripture assures us, God is there before us.
Catholic Mass/Hymn Sing Breeze Time with Kathy
Every Wednesday at 1:00 pm, residents can Join Chaplain Kathy Howell watch Catholic Mass on Channel 22. These videos for her Breeze Time segment will be of mass’ held at various Catholic Church’s. every Tuesday beginning at 9:00 am and Coffee with Residents tune your television to channel 22 Kathy on Thursday at 9:00 every Monday at 7:00 pm, for Hymn Sing-along. am. This program shows 3-4 Join in and sing along with the video, it’s fun. times during this time period.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY MEMORIAL DAY LUNCH Friday May 8th join us at 2:00 Monday May 25th we would like to pm as we recognize all the wish everyone a happy Memorial Day. Residents will be served a delicious ladies in our community. On “Memorial Day lunch” today. Lunch behalf of Hermitage Northern delivery will begin at 11:30 am. Virginia, a chocolate rose will be dropped off, outside your door. Sunday May 10th Happy Mother’s Day to you. We have wonderful programs lined up for resident’s enjoyment today, beginning at 8:00 am on channel 22.
How Does Your Garden Grow? Friday May 8th is celebrated as Public Gardens Day to promote awareness of the value of public gardens of all kinds. Many botanic and historical gardens and arboreta is usually open for free today. With cities growing ever larger and populations becoming denser, finding peaceful refuge in public gardens is more vital than ever. Natural spaces are necessary for our health and wellbeing. Research has proven that being around plants makes humans feel calmer and more relaxed. Urban areas with abundant green spaces also report lower mortality rates, improved mental health, and less cardiovascular and respiratory disease. Public gardens are also Centers of Scientific Research and Learning, which offers professionals and visitors the opportunity to learn more about the natural world around them. Although suspended until further notice, the Garden Club provided flowers to residents and team members to add a little sunshine to their day. They also planted flowers by the breezeway for resident’s enjoyment.