Thursday, August 19, 2010

Simple Acts of Kindness

Yesterday we took some bread to the nice retirement home.  Sister Poelenitz lives there and we do sacrament for her since she can't leave due to health issues.  She's only about 50, but way physically disabled.  We cut open her watermelon for her, and that act of kindness to her seemed to be the most rewarding thing I've done out here.  Just helping an oldish woman.

I don't think I've told you all about Freddy yet.  He's an old retarded guy we used to help play Bingo.  He's funny because he will make eye contact with you, then cock his head and crack up laughing.  I'm going to find a way for us to continue helping Freddy with Bingo.

We live 6 miles from where we work, so it's about a half hour hilly bike ride each way.  But at one spot, we cross a bridge over a cool stream.  The cool part about the stream is that there are a ton of great blue herons that nest near the bridge, so we see a bunch of those birds every day we ride.  It reminds me of going bird watching with Dad.

I am surviving the humidity.  We've been very blessed in surviving these temperatures.  We have exceptional air conditioning which I opt to leave on always.  It's cooling down just a bit.  I sure hope I leave before winter.  I'm not prepared for wintery situations at all.

No comments:

Post a Comment