Phyllis came this morning and gave me a hand turning out my pantry, I was grateful for the help and it was good to spend time together. She said she might go home for a visit next year, her brother wants to throw a party for her 80th birthday. She is pushing 80 even harder than I am, and does twice as much - or more - helping out in the community. And she is another one asking me what I am going "to do" when I get home. The short answer is that it will be a change to open my eyes in the morning and not think about any responsibilities for the day - chaplaincy visits and making desserts for Wednesday's meal.
The walls of the Senior Centre are crammed full of photos of veterans, and I had two or three photos in a frame I took at a Remembrance Day service in 2010, the main photo being of Cecil Johnson, who was a well known veteran locally, and I thought I would take it along to the Senior Centre to add to the other veterans there. Kate seemed very pleased to have it. And she gave me something "that I could use to take on the aircraft" ...
I am not sure about the "taking on the aircraft". It looks as if I'm bragging, like, "look how special I am". And I'm probably bragging telling you about it. When I grew up people who did voluntary work were regarded - disparagingly by those who didn't - as "do gooders"; it wasn't until I came here and saw how much people did for others that I came to think that maybe doing good, contributing in one's community, wasn't such a BAD thing after all.
In the news...........As you probably know the Obamas are visiting Cuba, and a big deal is being made of the fact that Raoul Castro wasn't at the airport to meet them. SHOCK, HORROR, OUTRAGE. Trump said that he should have turned his plane around and come straight back. How Presidential is that??
Trump is so supremely confident that he is going to win the Election (and I am beginning to think he might) he has assembled all his foreign policy advisers. The phrase about counting, chickens, and hatching comes to mind.
The field has narrowed from 17 to 3 and the front runners, Trump and Cruz, are urging Kasich to opt out because he hasn't got a mathematical chance of winning, and he will split the vote if he stays in. Ha, ha. I think I'd vote for Kasich, if I had a vote. As far as I am concerned it is all about likeability, never mind the politics, and Kasich is likeable.
There is a service at Emmanuel every evening this week. This evening's service was focused on healing. I didn't go up for anointing with oil, it is not something I am used to.
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