I need to organise myself to find a better time to post the blog, I leave until I am almost ready for bed then I am too tired, like I was last night. But Friday morning I was out as usual at the hospital doing my chaplaincy round, then had my weekly hamburger at the cafeteria. The food there is actually very good, but I like a hot, freshly cooked hamburger.
The rest of the day I was trying to sort out some 'publicity' for the bake sale on Thursday, not a subject I have much experience of, but came up with this flyer.
We are also hoping to try and recruit more members so I went on to put together a letter of invitation, and something on what we are about.
Last night I set off to see 'Monuments Men' with Pattisue and her grandson, and it was a total debacle, not the film but the getting in. We would have preferred, ourselves, to go to the afternoon performance but her grandson works so we decided on the 7.20 performance. I don't think I have ever been out in the Mall and Movie Theatre Complex on a Friday evening, I think everybody in Shawnee was out there, I've never seen the like, it was busier than Christmas.
I knew I wouldn't be able to park anywhere near the movie theatre, so pulled into a restaurant parking lot at the front of the Mall area, and hiked across the vast parking area and through the Mall, I caught up with them outside the box office where there was a very long queue. By this time I have totally gone off the idea of seeing the film. As her grandson was with her I started to bail out, suggesting they go in and I'll see it another time, but Pattisue seized on the chance to bail out too, she'd gone off the idea as well, so we are going to see it another day. She drove me back to my car - she has a permit to park in the handicapped area nearby - and we all went home thankful to get away from the crowds.
The previous day - Thursday - our Kiwanis speaker was one of our members, originally Iranian and Ba'hai, who gave a talk - as this is International Year of Women of the World - on significant women. He spoke on Queen Esther of Persia, and a prominent American who became one of the first American women to become Ba'hai. The talk wasn't about the Ba'hai, but just to let you know who they are I copied this from a Canadian website.
"The Bahá'í teachings promote the elimination of all forms of prejudice and uphold equal dignity and respect for all peoples, regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious or national background. Equality of men and women, the elimination of extremes of poverty and wealth and economic justice for all peoples, universal education, and the dignity of the individual are central Bahá'í principles."
It was an interesting talk, I think he plans more. He distributed notelets and asked us to write down names of two prominent women. Just off the top of my head I came up with Golda Meyer and Boadicea. Afterwards I thought that although we all know who Boadicea was, an Iranian American probably hasn't heard of her. And goodness knows how Golda Meyer popped into my head, but I think he approved of that, and she will probably be a future topic because the Ba'hai have strong links with Israel.
At the end of the meeting someone from the Red Cross came in and asked for volunteers to help pack disaster kits. There seemed to be quite a few volunteers there as Fr Clark and I waltzed out through the front door to the rest of our Thursday morning activities, however looking at Friday's paper there seems to be only two, of which Louise - bless her heart - was one.
Louise is on the right of the picture.
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