SAINT LUKE’S BISHOP SPENCER PLACE February 2021 A few words from the CEO Stay What does hope feel like? For me, it feels like a ACTIVE little soreness in my arm and a little fatigue. Garden Hope recently came to BSP in the form of a TIME tiny little dose of vaccine. With that tiny little dose and the dose to follow, hope is now on Chair pilates our radar. So many of us have hope for family, bit.ly/BSPchairPilates hope for community, and hope for togetherness. This is such an exciting time. Have you Four routines to build strength I’m excited and full of hope thinking about our vibrant community Happy Valentine’s Day noticed the green of various groundcovers? and flexibility from Daily Caring. Parts of our Memorial Garden are coming alive with music and laughter once again. Sunday, Feb. 14 experiencing an early blossoming. If you're Walk your way to health In the meantime, following are some words of wisdom directly from Valentine’s Day, also called St. Valentine’s Day, has origins like me, I'm sure you can't wait until our heart.org Saint Luke’s experts about keeping our minds and bodies fit as we in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February. spring beauties fully bloom. Research has shown that walking look forward to the future with hope. The festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included at a lively pace can help you: fertility rites and the pairing of women with men by lottery. This is just the start of our beautiful • Think and sleep better Be grateful and focus on positivity. Focus on what you have At the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I replaced Memorial Garden. We hope all residents and what is good rather than complaining about what you don’t Lupercalia with St. Valentine’s Day. It came to be celebrated will visit it every week to enjoy nature. Invite • Reduce your risk of serious have. Some ways to do this include maintaining a gratitude as a day of romance around 14th century. your neighbors to walk with you and rest diseases like heart disease, journal, expressing sincere thanks, and learning to recognize and in our garden chairs. They are movable, so stroke, diabetes, and several acknowledge the positives that come from the little things in life. Although there were several Christian martyrs named please stay six feet apart. types of cancer Valentine, the day may have taken its name from a priest Let go of negativity. Embrace failure and challenges. View both as • Improve your blood who was martyred around 270 CE by the emperor Claudius Plus, remember there are many pretty learning opportunities. pressure, blood sugar, and II Gothicus. According to legend, the priest signed a letter plants we can all enjoy that live indoors. cholesterol levels Take care of yourself. Regular exercise, eating well, and getting “from your Valentine” to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had A few of these include, English Ivy, Bamboo • Increase your energy and adequate sleep will help you take care of your body. Taking care befriended and, by some accounts, healed from blindness. Palm, Mother-in-Law’s Tongue, Spider Plant, stamina of your spirit is also important to remember. Practice being more Other accounts hold that it was St. Valentine of Terni, Pothos, and Philodendron. accepting of who you are. Cut out comparisons and become more a bishop, for whom the holiday was named, though it is • Improve your mental and aware of what it is that you are working towards. You can do this by possible the two saints were actually one person. Another For all of you who are excited about St. emotional well-being and decluttering your space, connecting with nature, listening to music, common legend states that St. Valentine defied the Patrick’s Day, it is around the corner. There reduce risk of depression and visualizing your happiness. You can also try learning something emperor’s orders and secretly married couples to spare the is plenty of time to prepare to celebrate. We • Improve memory and new or pursuing a new hobby. husbands from war. It is for this reason that his feast day is trust that all of our friends will enjoy the day reduce your risk of Live in the moment. Be present because that is all there is right now. associated with love. while observing the Wearin’ O’ the Green! dementia Enjoy everything you are fortunate enough to have. Set limits and • Boost bone strength boundaries for consuming news. Formal messages, or valentines, appeared in the 1500s and - Bobbie Ellis and reduce your risk of by the 1700s commercially printed cards were being used. osteoporosis Nurture human connections. Human connections can be sustained The first commercial valentines in the United States were in many ways. Because we cannot gather during this time, • Prevent weight gain printed in the mid-1800s. Valentines commonly depict technology allows us to connect virtually. Think to yourself: Are you Cupid, the Roman god of love, along with hearts, traditionally using the technology to communicate by reaching out, or are you the seat of emotion. Because it was thought that the avian In Loving Memory using it to isolate further? Make a conscious choice to seek human mating season begins in mid-February, birds also became connection. a symbol of the day. Traditional gifts include candy and Ingeborg Brooks Make your life meaningful to others. Bring positive energy into your flowers, particularly red roses, a symbol of beauty and love. Linda Talbott space and community. Find ways to spread joy and make someone else feel good. Moulton Green Wishing you a wonderful February, Dru Breidenthal Isaac "Jack" Jonathan 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 February 2021 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY GROUNDHOG DAY NATIONAL WEAR 1 2 3 4 RED DAY 5 6 10 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Stretch—AC 10 a.m. Stretch—AC 10 a.m. Stretch—AC 2 p.m. Dining Comm—TBD 10 a.m. Friday Morning Fitness— 10 a.m. Mass—CH 3 p.m. Great Courses: — CH 1851 2 p.m. Movie Monday— 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & History of Impression- 4 p.m. Tony Bennett’s CH 1851 Small (original series)—CH ism: CH 1851 Wonderful World 1851 (13 & 14) Concert—CH 1851* SUPER BOWL SUNDAY NATIONAL PIZZA DAY GO CHIEFS! 7 8 9 10 HANUKKAH BEGINS 11 12 13 10 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC AT SUNDOWN 10 a.m. Friday Morning Fitness— 12 :30 p.m. Resident Council—WR 10 a.m. Stretch—AC 10 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC CH 1851 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch—AC 3 p.m. Great Courses:— 104 p.m.a.m. FrankStrength Sinatra & Balance—AC and 10 a.m. Mass—CH 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & 3 p.m. Christmas in February! 2 p.m. Monday Movie— History of Impression- Friends, “Where or Smal (original series): Final Chaplain Kathy’s Saints CH 1851 ism: CH 1851 When" Concert—CH Episodes of Season One. and Singers—Channel 1851* —CH 1851 1851 VALENTINE’S DAY PRESIDENT’S DAY ASH WEDNESDAY NATIONAL DRINK WINE DAY 14 15 16 10 a.m. Stretch–AC 17 18 19 20 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 10 a.m. Stretch—AC 10 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 2 p.m. Great Courses: — 10 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Friday Morning Fitness— 10 a.m. Mass—CH 2 p.m. Monday Movie— 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & History of Impres- CH 1851 3 p.m. Wine Delivery for Wine CH 1851 Small (original series)—CH sionism: CH 1851 Ash Wednesday Day — from apartment LIFE ENRICHMENT | INDEPENDENT LIVING 1851 3 p.m. Service— CH to apartment 21 22 23 24 NATIONAL CHILI DAY 25 26 27 10 a.m. Stretch—AC 10 a.m. Stretch—AC 10 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Strength & Balance—AC 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH 2 p.m. Monday Movie— 1:30 pm. Lenten Studies - CH 10 a.m. Friday Morning Fitness— 10 a.m. Mass—CH 1 p.m. All Creatures Great & CH 1851 3 p.m. CH 1851 Small (original series)—CH Great Courses: — 3 p.m. Good Book with 1851 History of Impression- Chaplain - Ch 1851 ism: CH 1851 . 28 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist—CH Group activities subject to community status *Tony Bennett’s Wonderful World Concert: *Frank Sinatra and Friends, “Where or When" Concert: 4 bit.ly/TonyBennettConcert bit.ly/FrankAndFriendsBSP 5 All Creatures Great and Small Take a “Trip” to The Nelson-Atkins Museum The Great Courses: “Impressionism: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 9, 6, and 23 Daily From Monet to van Gogh” 1 p.m. Channel 1851 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is a world-class Wednesdays, 3 p.m. | Channel 1851 We will continue to show the treasure. For an overall view of the museum, take a virtual look. More than original PBS series All Creatures 35,000 images can be viewed online. You could spend days looking at the These artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and Great and Small. WITH We know museum’s artistic wonders. Enjoy your trip and please feel free to make a provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban beauty that persist many of you are enjoying the donation.