SUNDAY FUNDAY - FEBRUARY 26, 2023

 SUNDAY FUNDAY - SUN, FEBRUARY 26TH

Welcome to the last Sunday in February.  There is less than one month until the official start of spring (although I like the Weather Channel’s view of seasons - with spring being March, April, and May.) One month until equal daytime and nighttime (spring equinox).  The weather is up-and-down - but trending upwards.  (No more ice storms - please!!)

Winter activities are drawing to an end.  If you follow college basketball, it will soon be “March Madness”.  Do you have favorites?  High School sports also are getting ready for the switchover to spring sports.  If you follow major league baseball, pitchers and catchers have already reported and are getting their arms back in shape.  

In football, it is the post-season where coaches get fired, hired, change jobs, and/or retired

Some of us, are ready for spring flowers and have some plants and seeds ready to plant.  My patio garden has kept me in salad most of the winter (kale, Swiss chard, and lettuce).  

CALENDAR

For Christians it is Lent - the period leading up to Easter - some groups observe Lent and others do not so much. Some people give up something for Lent.  I am giving up hunting elephants for Lent (again).  If you find me hunting elephants, please stop me!!!

SOME INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS:

(I get a daily happiness email from the Society of Happy People)

Learn to be your own best friend first then you will find true happiness because happiness is from within.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It’s not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

You never regret being kind.

I've learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did, but people will

remember how you made them feel.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect.

It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things 

we can practice that will bring immediate and 

long-term happiness in our lives.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,

but often we look so long at the closed door that

we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

SENIOR JOKES

A grandmother is giving directions to her grown grandson who is coming to visit with his wife.

“You come to the front door of the apartment. I am in apartment 301. There is a big panel at the front door. With your elbow, push button 301. I will buzz you in. Come inside, the elevator is on the right. Get in and with your elbow, push 3. When you get out, I’m on the left. With your elbow, hit my doorbell.”

“Grandma, that sounds easy, but why am I hitting all these buttons with my elbow?”

“What… You’re coming empty-handed?”

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I would prefer to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandma - the bus driver, not screaming in terror like her passengers.

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Q. What is the similarity between a grandmother and a website?
A. You have to accept the cookies.

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I asked my grandpa: "After 65 years you still call grandma darling, beautiful, and honey. What's the secret?"

Grandpa: "I forgot her name 5 years ago and I'm scared to ask her."

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A 6-year-old was asked where his grandma lived. “Oh,” he said, “She lives at the airport, and when we want her, we just go get her. Then, when we’re done having her visit, we take her back to the airport.”

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My grandma has been walking 5 miles a day since she was 57. She’s 92 now, and we have no idea where she is.

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UPCOMING:

BlueBonnet Orchestra - FREE CONCERT - SUNDAY MARCH 5TH AT 3:00 P.M. - Klett Auditorium at Georgetown High School.  It will be about an hour.  Pieces include Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, Leia’s and Yoda’s themes (from Star Wars), Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Night on Bald Mountain.

(As I have mentioned, I’d really like to establish a matinee concert in Georgetown.  Some of us don’t enjoy driving at night.  A larger crowd would help us keep coming to Georgetown).

(Same concert on Saturday night at 8:00 at Round Rock First United Methodist Church - also FREE)

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WRAP-UP

Love one another

Love Wins

Love Transforms 

Karen White

February 26, 2023