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The View from Sunflower Gardens
By Marilyn Bentley
Last Updated: April 18, 2019

We can learn a lot from geese

At Sunflower Gardens we like our Monday morning coffee chats, Tuesday Bible study, game nights, puzzle rooms, library and Saturday night movies with popcorn and walks down our halls.

"Spring was special when I was a kid.

"Really didn't matter what it was we did.

"Looking for a robin, watching flowers grow.

"Attending church on Easter, faces all aglow.

"Showing off our new clothes, hunting Easter eggs.

"Trying out our new bikes, skinning up our legs.

"Changing May baskets on our neighbor's door.

"Thanks for our blessings, feeling rich not poor.

"Relaxing in the warmth of a spring afternoon.

"Knowing summer was coming all too soon." — Karen Edwards

Thank you to all who gave us nice jigsaw puzzles. All are pretty.

Remember to pray for all our troops, their families, our Congress and president.

Prayer and verse of the week: "Lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the Earth, time of singing of birds is come and the voice of turtle doves is heard in our land." (Song of Solomon 2:11,12)

Some of our residents are planting seeds near the main building for plants to beautify our home here. Thanks to all our gardeners.

Happy Easter. This year, Easter Sunday is on April 21.

Welcome, welcome to new residents. It's fun getting to know you.

Lessons from geese: "If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in formation with those who are headed where we want to go.

"Geese in formation honk from behind to encourage those to keep up sped. Make sure our ‘honking' from behind is encouraging and not hindering.

"People who share a common direction and sense of community direction can get where they are going quicker and easier because they travel on the thrust of one another.

"If we are as bright as a goose, we will stand by each other and encourage each other." — Milton Olson

Remember … we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

"We know all families are not biological. People not related to you can teach you and care for you." — Anonymous

We like our Kansas state song.

"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam.

"Where the deer and the antelope play.

"Where seldom is heard a discouraging word.

"And the skies are not cloudy all day.

The Kansas flower is the sunflower.

Our state bird is the Western Meadowlark.

"Be kind, anyway." — Mother Teresa

Ours is an awesome God, how about yours?




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