SAINT LUKE’S BISHOP SPENCER PLACE April 2021 A few words from the CEO
Spring is springing! And change is upon Stay us. Not just in nature but in our day to day ACTIVE Concerts Tim Whitmer lives as well. Wednesday, April 14 GardenTIME 4 p.m. | Bishop’s Garden As the impact of the COVID-19 Tim Whitmer will be here to AARP Virtual vaccinations takes hold, we feel our lives entertain us, but also to honor Community Center beginning to have a little bit of normalcy Happy days are here again! But resident Bert Bates on his bit.ly/2Nqs1ng returning. All around our community, were we not really lucky with little visits with loved ones and friends are birthday! Come to the Garden AARP offers a wide variety of more than a picturesque snow this looking different. Normal activities like card games are to celebrate. If the weather free interactive online events and past year? Let’s hope just the right resuming, and hugs are welcome once again. It’s too early to doesn’t cooperate, we will try classes designed for learning, showers will arrive this month to take our eye off the ball entirely, but we’re all so happy to begin again on April 17th. self-improvement, and fun. prove that our garden will have to see that the light at the end of this tunnel keeps getting wonderful May flowers. Upcoming virtual events brighter as the weeks go on. Betse and Clarke Hope you have Getting Started with Your Friday, April 30 We appreciate your support and understanding as we navigate begun to enjoy Family History 3 p.m. | Bishop’s Garden through these uncharted waters together, safely and with our Memorial Wednesday, March 31 Betse and Clarke return to an abundance of precautions. Please continue to follow our Garden again, 12 p.m. Eastern | 11 a.m. Central BSP—weather permitting! guidance and we’ll get through this together. admiring Betse Ellis, daughter of BSP Menopause and Women’s the different resident Bobbie Ellis, plays the Health: The Bigger Picture Yours in health, beauties of fiddle and sings. Clarke Wyatt Wednesday, March 31 Mother Nature plays banjo and guitar. 7 p.m. Eastern | 6 p.m. Central now arising as promised. They each whisper forth with silent cries of Ten Technology Treasures “Look at me, too!” Please remember for Individuals with to save these early bloomers and Vision Concerns budding glories for others to admire Thursday, April 1 in the garden. Our showplace will 12 p.m. Eastern | 11 a.m. Central In Loving Memory last longer that way. Many thanks Virtual Hatha Yoga “from me, too.” Thursday, April 1 —Bobbie Ellis 6 p.m. Eastern | 5 p.m. Central HAPPY BIRTHDAY Virtual Chair-Based Yoga Margie Orr Monday, April 5 Clark Achelpohl, April 1 9 a.m. Eastern | 8 a.m. Central Just Walk—A Walk with A Doc Vicki Johnson, April 10 Wednesday, April 7 Bert Bates, April 14 10 a.m. Eastern | 9 a.m. Central Maya Coopersmith, April 19 Virtual Line Dancing Wednesday, April 7 Jerry McKeehan, April 19 11:45 a.m. Eastern Henry Tharp, April 23 Recently, Robbie and Phill Levi 10:45 a.m. Central made us aware of a party of Lisa Tostevin, April 27 cedar waxwings in our cypress More events will be posted on their tree! site as the weeks progress. 3 AC Activity Center (above Bistro) WR Westport Room CDR Canterbury Dining Room Ch 1851 Channel 1851 on your Spectrum TV CH Chapel BG Bishop’s Garden April 2021
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Maundy Thursday Royals Opening Day 1 Good Friday 2 3 April Fools’ Day 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Friday Morning 11 a.m. Rosary—CH 2:30 p.m. Dining Comm—CDR Fitness—Ch 1851 3 p.m. Good Friday 3 p.m. Maundy Services—CH Services—CH
Easter 4 5 6 World Health Day 7 8 9 10
10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Friday Morning 11 a.m. Rosary—CH Fitness—Ch 1851 11 a.m. Easter Brunch for 2 p.m. Monday Movie—Ch 1851 12:30 p.m. Resident Council—TBD 3 p.m. Great Courses: 2 p.m. Life Enrichment Residents 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & Masterworks of Comm—TBD 2 p.m. Rick Steves: Scottish Small—Ch 1851 American Art—Ch 1851 Highlands & Scottish Islands—Ch 1851
National Wear Your 11 12 13 No Mass today 14 15 Pajamas to Work Day & 16 17 Resident-Sponsored 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC Lunch for Employees! 11 a.m. Rosary—CH 3 p.m. Great Courses: Masterworks 2 p.m. Monday Movie—Ch 1851 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & of American Art—Ch 1851 10 a.m. Friday Morning Small—Ch 1851 4 p.m. Tim Whitmer Concert Fitness—Ch 1851 LIFE ENRICHMENT | INDEPENDENT LIVING for Bert Bates’s Birthday! . (Rain date 4.17)—BG 18 19 20 21 Earth Day 22 23 24
10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Friday Morning 11 a.m. Rosary—CH 2 p.m. Monday Movie—Ch 1851 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & 3 p.m. Great Courses: Fitness—Ch 1851 Small—Ch 1851 Masterworks of American Art—Ch 1851
25 26 27 National Superhero Day 28 29 30 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 9:30 a.m. Catholic Mass—CH 10:30 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Friday Morning 2 p.m. Monday Movie—Ch 1851 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & 10 a.m. Stretch & Strengthen—AC Fitness—Ch 1851 Small—Ch 1851 3 p.m. Great Courses: 3 p.m. Betse and Clarke Masterworks of (weather permitting)— American Art—Ch 1851 BG
Group activities subject to community status 4 5 In the News Rick Steves’ Tours: Scottish Highlands and Scottish Islands
Resident Mary Abbott was All Creatures Great recently interviewed by news and Small anchor Haley Harrison for the Tuesdays, 1 p.m. | Ch 1851 KMBC 9 news and podcast. We will continue to show Hear how Mary’s career took the original PBS series of All her from the CIA to the New York Creatures Great and Small. We’re Times to a position as one of the watching Season 3 and will begin first employees of the Peace Season 4 later in the month. Corps, working in an office next door to the White House. Friday, April 9 | 2 p.m. | Channel 1851 Play along with a new Bingo card this month. Filled with more natural and historical bit.ly/3tqTPHh mystique than people, the rocky Highlands apple.co/30P3dZ3 are where legends of Bonnie Prince Charlie swirl around lonely castles. You’ll visit the Weeping Glen of Glencoe, bustling Inverness, and the battlefield at Culloden. Then enjoy a pilgrimage to the spiritual capital of a major clan and go prehistoric at Stone Age burial grounds and Iron Age BINGOPLAY ALONG WHILE WATCHING RICK STEVES’ EUROPE island forts. Venturing along the Caledonian Canal and watching Celebrates The Great Courses series Silent bearded “Biggest” pedestrian- for Nessie at Loch Ness, you’ll man appears Rick changes “Oldest” “Oh, baby!” friendly zones Masterworks of American Art (Producer, Also on KMBC 9, reporter experience modern Scottish or green his shirt “Tallest” Simon) Wednesdays, 3 p.m. | Ch 1851 Alan Shope interviewed BSP cuisine and enjoy traditional spaces “First” residents Una Creditor and folk music. In this course, encounter the Rick says “My friend Rick tries to Rick visits Rick enjoys “thank you” in brilliant paintings of homegrown Clark Achelpohl about how and fellow make wonky In the Island show, we’ll begin a church a local drink the country’s masters who documented the the COVID-19 pandemic and tour guide” history fun on the tranquil Isle of Iona, language lockdown became a way to events of our nation from its where Christianity first reached FREE SPACE colonial roots to the brink of WWI strengthen their friendship and Thinly veiled The month the shores of Scotland. Then “Keep on guidebook Innuendo of filming is and Modernism. As you examine find love. Travelin’” we’ll visit another of the Inner Hebrides, road-tripping across plug mentioned this artistic tradition, you discover bit.ly/3bSSG5p the Isle of Skye, exploring Iron Age forts, peat fields, a venerable how appreciating American art is bit.ly/3vA6eKT distillery, thatched crofter huts, and the dramatic Trotternish Rick wears Alliteration crucial to fully understanding the a backpack Rick Dorky Rick walks (two or three Peninsula. Finally, we see words starting story of our great nation. on one adores art joke and talks with the Orkney—more Nordic shoulder same letter) than Celtic—with its stony Your guide is noted scholar and art “Evokes” remnants of a thriving Thinly veiled Enjoys historian Professor William Kloss, Rick shares “Evocative” Rick political commanding Iron Age civilization and a budget tip or dines out who has taught more than 100 comment view point evocative reminders of “Convivial” courses as an independent lecturer the 20th-century wartime for the Smithsonian Institution’s harbor at Scapa Flow. seminar and travel program.
6 7 April Dates to Note World Health Day Now, the fight for a clean environment continues as in the creators of Building a fairer, healthier world with increasing urgency, as the ravages of “The Fantastic Four,” BestBOOKS April 7 climate change become more and more apparent “The Avengers,” and every day. From its inception “X-Men.” However, Marvel superheroes aren’t the at the First Health Earthday.org is honored that the Biden Check out the fiction and nonfiction books only ones out there. If you’re a fan Assembly in 1948 Administration has decided to convene a global that top the New York Times Best Seller of Batman, Wonder Woman, or Superman, those and since taking climate summit on Earth Day 2021. Many List. The Times list is widely considered superheroes were created by DC Comics, and they effect in 1950, important environmental events have happened the preeminent list of best-selling books are equally celebrated on this day! World Health on Earth Day since 1970, including the recent in the United States. It has been published Day has aimed to signing of the Paris Agreement, as Earth Day The first superhero ever was created in 1936. The weekly since October 12, 1931. create awareness of a specific health theme continues to be a momentous and unifying day superhero was named Phantom, and he started to highlight a priority area of concern for the each and every year. Find how you can help at with his own comic strip in a U.S. newspaper. This Fiction World Health Organization. earthday.org/earth-day-2021. was the first known beginnings of a published LIFE AFTER DEATH Over the past 50 years, this has brought to light superhero, and now there are hundreds of well- Sister Souljah important health issues such as mental health, known heroes that everyone loves. THE FOUR WINDS maternal and child care, and climate change. As for the real-life superheroes, National Kristin Hannah The celebration is marked by activities which Superhero Day also recognizes the heroes extend beyond the day itself and serves as an that people look up to every day. No matter KLARA AND THE SUN opportunity to focus worldwide attention on if they wear masks, capes, scrubs, or uniforms, Kazuo Ishiguro these important aspects of global health. everyone has someone they think of as a DARK SKY The pandemic will be the focus of the superhero. This national day began and grew C. J. Box WHO campaign this year. Visit the World The first Earth Day, 1970. so that everyone’s role models could get a Health Organization website to learn more: well-deserved shout out for whatever hard who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2021. National Superhero Day work they do. Nonfiction April 28 HOW TO AVOID A Here are some fun facts about the fictional heroes CLIMATE DISASTER Earth Day For a day that’s all about celebrating superheroes, that we all know. The world turns to climate action it’s no surprise that National Superhero Day was Bill Gates Wolverine was initially supposed to be April 22 founded by Marvel Comics in 1995. Now, every * JUST AS I AM The Badger. Today, Earth year since its birth on April 28, 1995, people come Cicely Tyson Day is widely together annually on this day to celebrate all * The Incredible Hulk was initially supposed recognized their favorite heroes. No matter if your favorites to be gray, but the color green looks better CASTE: THE ORIGINS as the largest are fictional or real, this is the day to be thankful on the printed page, so it was used instead. OF OUR DISCONTENTS secular for them. Isabel Wilkerson * Superman was initially supposed to be bald. observance If you don’t know about Marvel Comics, think THINK AGAIN in the world, about all those superheroes you loved growing * Bruce Wayne is supposed to have an IQ Adam Grant marked by up (and might still love). We’re talking about of 192. For comparison, Einstein had an IQ more than a billion people every year as a day Spiderman, Thor, Ironman, Black Widow, Captain of 160. of action to change human behavior and create Marvel, and many other fan favorites. Those Green Lama was a pulp magazine fictional global, national and local policy changes. * heroes are all from Marvel comics. Marvel Comics superhero of the 1940s.
8 9 Thoughtful Quote Livestreaming A POEM ChaplainCORNERs SUNDAY SERVICES Over the Land Is April St. Andrew’s Episcopal 8 a.m., 10:15 a.m. Over the land is April, For some reason, How can I keep from singing?, the last line from the standrewkc.org/live-worship Over my heart a rose; hymn “My Life Flow on in Endless Song,” comes to mind today. All Souls Unitarian Universalist 11:10 a.m. Over the high, brown mountain Kansas City Symphony Have you ever found yourself, for whatever reason, just beginning bit.ly/3g7G62f kcsymphony.org to hum or sing a melody? Soon you search for a reason, and The sound of singing goes. Immaculate Conception Recently, we’ve highlighted tours online of the Nelson- there’s whole lot of meaning behind it. You’re in the middle of 11:00 a.m. Say, love, do you hear me, Atkins Museum of Art and The Kemper Contemporary doing something and start thinking of a friend or memory with a facebook.com/golddomekc Hear my sonnets ring? Art Museum. This month, take a virtual trip to our beloved loved one…and pow! a melody pops up! I recall the first time that Community Christian Church Kansas City Symphony’s site and refresh yourself by happened. I was a child in the garden of my childhood home. I felt 10:30 a.m. Over the high, brown mountain, looking up performers’ bios (many you’ll recognize from our that there was context for the melody. Whatever or whomever facebook.com/Community4KC Love, do you hear me sing? own living room!) and upcoming events. I was thinking of, whatever experience I had just gone through, Conception Abbey the meaning of the music was a response to give meaning to that They recently added a section titled “Music Talk,” 7:45 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m. memory. And I felt joy! conceptionabbey.org/live By highway, love, and byway explaining musical terminology and techniques at kcsymphony.org/music-talk. You may also learn Thinking of and feeling spring, from the cold, bare, and fallow Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral The snows succeed the rose. 10:15 a.m. more about their outreach programs and watch some seasons to brighter days with buds, flowers, and renewal of earth, kccathedral.org/worship Over the high, brown mountain performances online. taking in the warmth of the sun, there’s resurrection. We just passed The wind of winter blows. a year of restrictions because of the pandemic. It’s fair to say that St. Paul’s Episcopal Led by Director Michael Stern, the Symphony offers great 10 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m. there’s a whole lot of meaning and parallel with spring’s arrival and Say, love, do you hear me, performances for audiences to transform hearts, minds, facebook.com/StPaulsKCMO having vaccinations available. We emerge together out of a bizarre, and communities through the power of symphonic music. Hear my sonnets ring? wintery season with slow but steady renewal and reconnection with Unity Temple on the Plaza 10:30 a.m. Over the high, brown mountain Consider a donation to this Kansas City treasure. loved ones. There again is resurrection. There again…is joy! bit.ly/2yfspgE I sound the song of spring, Coming from a choir boy, I’m glad to close with bit more of the hymn Village Presbyterian Church mentioned above: 9:30 a.m. I throw the flowers of spring. 13 villagepres.org/online The /4 Seasons of Missouri My life flow’s on in endless song, / above earth’s lamentation. Do you hear the song of spring? Winter I catch the sweet, though far-off hymn / that hails a new creation. Hear you the songs of spring? Fool’s Spring Second Winter Refrain: Spring of Deception —Robert Louis Stevenson No storm can shake my inmost calm / while to that Rock I’m clinging. Third Winter Since Love is lord of heav’n and earth, / how can I keep from singing Tornado Season Summer What melody or poem (or ?) is singing in your heart at this time? Let Lord, What Did We Do to Deserve me know! to Burn? Road Construction P.S. I remain heartened by BSP’s hospitality last year when I Fall was with you in Chaplain Kathy’s stead for an interim time. My Just Kidding! Still Summer invitation remains the same as last year: You’re welcome to reach Four Days of Actual Fall out to me in this time. I look forward to crossing paths again and to Christmas making new introductions. © unknown —Chaplain Mark Jeske
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