St. John Neumann Day

Greetings on the Feast of St. John Neumann. Now, you may know as much as the 2 of us know about this man. But this morning the keeper told us that he was an immigrant priest who was sent from Bohemia to Philadelphia. He became a friend to the many immigrant poor there, and died while delivering food to a poor family.

The keeper also told us this morning that if we were going to sit on her lap in the living room, we needed to reflect on today's Gospel from Mark about the feeding of the 5000 men....(note...men, imagine how many more people were there--women, children, pets!) So we sat and listened to her. You can tell she misses preaching sometimes. She said she had visited that purported place, and it was pretty deserted before all the tourists started coming. She wanted us observe how the disciples, who were weary of the crowd ( they thought they were going on a little break--ha!) wanted to send them away to buy food. Then Jesus told them to give them food. All the d's could imagine was that they would have to buy all these people bread. But J asks them to give what they had....She asked us to think about the difference between buying and giving. It is much easier for many to buy things for others...much more difficult to share from our very selves...a la mother pelican. Do we rush out to buy when we are really being asked to give? Now, we don't rush out to buy much since she won't let us drive or have money. However, we think the keeper could reflect on this question for awhile.

Alice went out and sat on the hot tub for a while and watched birds. She loves watching them, and can't figure out why she can't catch them. she doesn't realize that they are dive-bombing her on purpose to tease... Eventually, she quits making that low throaty bird chasing growl, and yawns and comes in.

We also hope that all of our friends, MK and Molly and Sheila and Pat and others had a great wild time watching The Bachelor last night. We didn't see it because we were busy reading about changing the keeper's metabolism so she could be svelte and full of energy. Today we started cleaning out things that slow the metabolism down---processed foods, fake sugar, plastics, etc...Big garbage day coming up!