Greenwood Place

April Newsletter

Easter is April the 24th this year. Thursday the 21^st at 3pm Mr. Harrison’s nieces have planned an Easter Party for everyone.

We will be decorating eggs Friday the 22cnd at 2:30 in the dining room.. be sure to bring your imaginations!

April Showers bring May flowers

Famous Birthdays in April:

4/2/1805  Hans Christian Anderson 4/3/1922 Doris Day

 4/13/1743 Thomas Jefferson 4/17/1937 Daffy Duck                                 

4/16/1889 Charlie Chaplin 4/20/1889 Adolph Hitler

4/21/1816 Charlotte Bronte  4/21/1926 Elizabeth the Second

4/23/1928 Shirley Temple 4/23/1564 William Shakespeare

4/26/1785 John James Audobon  4/28/1908 Oscar Schindler

April 13^th ~Willie Mae Brown

April 30^th ~ Martha Prescott

April is National Kite Flying Month!

Come watch and give a hand as we try to put a kite or two up up and away… the 20^th at 2 pm.

April is National Poetry Month!

In honor of which we will be holding a poetry reading on the 28^th at two thirty. Please find your favorite poems, or lyrics that have meant something to you, and bring them to share.

I found April in my arms.
April golden, April cloudy,
Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
April soft in flowered languor,
April cold with sudden anger,
Ever changing, ever true --
I love April, I love you.

-Ogden Nash

The purpose of this blog is to help others keep in touch and feel a part of what is going on here with us at Greenwood Place Retirement Community.  I expect many of our readers to have friends or family residing here already, or who are considering it for the future.  Ours is a long term care home with a small family feel; as I write this I hear a conversation taking place in the living room as two of our residents anticipate our upcoming snack time and activity for  this afternoon. We try our hardest to keep up steady and varied activities; today the plan is to press flowers in books, step one in an ongoing art project we are working on.   I can also hear as one resident is trying to help another wind and set her watch; we enjoy watching and foster the forming of bonds between our residents as many can better understand what the other is going thru than those of us who have not yet attained such an advanced spot on the road of life.