Share the JOY Thursday

HH and I have done a lot of talking about going South for a few months.

Only talk.

Neither one of us wants to travel.

We have always like living in an climate with 4 distinctive seasons.

But, we must admit, this winter has been a long, cold drawn out one.

Thank goodness for the avian activity outside our kitchen window.

We love the cardinals as nearly everyone does.

Lower left, mourning doves socializing up close to the house.

They bring us JOY just watching them happily going about their winter activities just waiting for spring.

We enjoy feeding them.

No feeding no birds.

Birds of a feather stick together.

Shower coming up for our 2nd greatgrandson due in April.

We will be taking a gift plus a book to help start his library.

Cute poem on the back of the invitation.

From Peter Rabbit to Mother Goose

Goodnight Moon and Dr Seuss

Curious George and Winnie the Pooh

Eloise and Babar, Too.

In lieu of a card, please bring and sign

Your favorite children's classic.

Let's build a library for Maxon

that will be fantastic!

Studiobasics /by Tiny Prints.

www.tinyprints.com 

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FSO- theme books and Grandmas say it Saturday

Friday Shoot Out

theme

Books

Who says books have to be published, professionally bound, etc., to be enjoyed?

In 2009, the first year I was completely retired, I decided to write a book for each grandchild for Christmas.

I started about June of that year.

Each book had the child's first name in the title and throughout the book.

I had written in a style and using only first names called them a series so if possibily, I would have them published later, they would come out as

The Papaw and Mamaw Stories.
I even illustrated them.

Had Kinko's bind them with spirals.

You would have thought they had discovered gold.
There was laughing and reading out loud and the
parents were excited as the children.

It was a total surprise for them all.
HH and I spent the 1/2 year talking about and coming up with memories to make the stories pertinent to each child.  
And they were all very whimsical.
Birds, genies, fish, horses, dreams all fun things to write about.
   

 The back cover.

We did that for two years and I have never seen children and parents so excited.
Each child has them tied together with ribbon and on display in their room.
They were all disappointed the third year, no book.

As they got older I did not intimately know as much about them as when they were younger and found myself unable to write for such a diverse age group.

I have been gathering ideas, as one is married and so many things have changed whimsical is hard to find for adults.
I could never have done that unless I had been a big reader.
 
One year I may just surprise them all again.

Books of my blog posts printed over the years.

I have them printed every six months.

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Friday Shoot Out- What kind of work you do.

Friday Shoot Out

 I am a retired RN and an associate of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Kentucky.

Part of our commitment as associates is to help out in a volunteer position somewhere with the sisters or within one of the missions of the sisters.
The Visitor's Center is part of the Office Of Congregational Advancement.

This office is responsible for generating the moneys needed for the work of the congregation.

I have been working in the Gift Shop that was located at Nazareth for several years which is now the Visitor's Center.

The Campus is included in a town tour map of our town.

My job is that of Hostess which I do every Friday from 1PM to 4PM.

I love doing it.

Meeting people from all over and getting to talk about the work of the sisters

which is very dear to my heart.

Visitors are shown a 10 minute film of the different missions and work of the sisters in US, India, Belize, Napal and Botswana

Items for sale in the Visitor's Center.

Books written and published by the sisters.

Four Seasons of the Campus on note cards.

Woodcut silhouette of the Motherhouse and St. Vincent's Church in celebration of the 200th celebration of their founding.

Thousands of boxes of homemade candy are sold by the Visitor's Center each year.

The sisters have been making this candy for many years.

It is absolutely scrumptious.

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Sepia Saturday Feb. 11, 2012

Sepia Saturday
Theme
Pictures with or about books


I am presently reading 

"Impelled by the Love of Christ"

History 

of

Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Ky 1924-1936

The sisters are currently organizing and publishing their archives based on the dates of the leadership of the community.

This photo was one shown in this book as the Archbishop of Louisville at the time of the Mother Superiors highlighted in these years.

As soon as I saw it I knew it would one day end up on Sepia Saturday.

John Alexander Floersh (October 5, 1886-June 11, 1968) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. Becoming Bishop of Louisville Ky. in 1924, he was elevated to the rank of Archbishop in 1937 and served until his retirement in 1967.

John  Floersh was born in Nashville, TN the 4th of 8 children of John and Minnie (nee) Alexander Floersh. 

His father was a cigar manufacturer. He began his studies for the priesthood at age 16 and earned his Doctor of Philosophy (1907) and Doctor of Divinity (1911) degrees from the Propaganda College in Rome.

(The Roman Colleges, also referred to as the Pontifical Colleges in Rome, are institutions established and maintained in Rome for the education of future ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. Traditionally many were for students of a particular nationality. The colleges are halls of residence in which the students follow the usual seminary exercises of piety, study in private, and review the subjects treated in class. In some colleges there are special courses of instruction (languages, music, archaeology etc.). but the regular courses in philosophy and theology are given in a few large central institutions, such as the Propaganda, the Gregorian University, the Roman Seminary, and the Minerva, i.e. the school of the Dominicans.)

 

He was ordained a priest in Rome on June 10, 1911. Returning to the United States, he did pastoral work in the Diocese of Nashville for a year before coming secretary to Archbishop Giovanni Bonzano, the Apostolic Delegate in Washington, D.C. He was named a Monsigner by Pope Benedict XV in 1917.

I was born in 1937 in Nov.

He was appointed the first Archbishop of the new Archdiocese of Louisville in Dec. 1937.

The first time I met him was in 1945 when I received the sacrament of Confirmation at my parish church in my home town.

He was a wonderful man and truly a holy man.

What does this have to do with books?

He was a man of books.

We always had books in my home when I was growing up.

They were not our books.

I got them from the local library.

A standing Saturday visit I made to the library.

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