Howllow Fellow Basset Hound and compassion lovers…Thank goodness for toast.  Yes, toast – I have learned that Daisy Lynn and I love, like I mean in love with Irish Buttered Toast Points…

Anywhooooooo…

Wednesday April 8th – Day 23 – We finally got our green lights put in our light fixtures at the front door.  In KY we are all trying to light up green at night to honor those who have lost their lives to the Corona Virus. Grandma, Daisy Lynn, and I are planning on taking an evening drive through our town to view other green lights and to take some pictures.  It will be interesting to see howl many others are lighting up green.  I am on a KY facebook page were we all keep posting uplifting messages and memes.  I have to say that KY is doing so good together.  I cannot say it enough about howl great our Leader is, Governor Andy Beshear.  Wow – he is an inspiration and he wound up in the right place at the wrong/right time.

Green is the color of compassion…

Thursday April 9th – Day 24 – There was a big Hospital Furlough in this neck of the woods – I have friends that work for Hospitals and they were all sent an e-mail stating that if they were not assigned to help with Covid-19 this would be their last day of pay.  They were to go home and start using their vacation and personal time and when that was used up… go file for unemployment…(what no green lights?)

OK the e-mail that was sent by the hospital system sounds like the “post it break up note”.  (Any one remember that episode of Sex in the City, Carrie’s boyfriend breaks up with her on a post it note…) OMGAWD…it was hysterical.  Unlike the e-mail that was sent to thousands of non-covid-19 workers. Happy Maundy, have a nice day and a nice last supper…

Anyway…Yes, this is the time and tone we are dealing with.  Gov. Andy keeps saying and asking us to repeat it with him, “We are going to get through this, we are going to get through this together”, not “We (as in the employer) are going to get though this, don’t hate me -“.  Geeze – have a little compassion hospital it’s Maundy Thursday.

“The word “Maundy” comes to us as an Anglo-French word derived from the Latin “mandatum,” which means “commandment.” It refers to when Jesus, in the Upper Room during the Last Super, said to the disciples: “A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. …”

Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, is a Christian observance in the United States. It is the day before Good Friday and takes place during Holy Week. It commemorates Jesus Christ’s last supper and the initiation of Holy Communion, when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples and established the ceremony known as the Eucharist. The night of Maundy Thursday is the night on which Jesus was betrayed by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane, observed in many Christian churches.  

I am not even religious but, correct me if I am wrong, churches and religions preach helping the poor and taking care of the sick so they raised money to build hospitals as a way to help people. Hospitals have been affiliated with religions for a very long time. … Often the only hospitals in cities were built by religious groups as a public service to an area.

Historically, churches were the hospitals. Nunneries were the only place that you could receive some sort of medical care (although it was usually meant to let you die comfortably). All the “nurses” were actually nuns. This is also why the cross makes sense as a symbol for the hospital.

Signed…The Hospital you work for…

PPS – have a nice supper…

Wonder howl much silver this is going to save the Holy Hospitals?

In related medical news…Grandma’s hearing aide stopped working so we called the office to see if we could mail it in or drop it off at a safe location for the gal to fix it.   We were told to look up repairs for her specific hearing aide on YouTube.  Folks…you better be able to turn into McGyver.

It is every woman and man for themselves. Don’t forget to wash your hands and your feet!!!

More loving and longing for the little things in life later (mainly compassion)…Cat, Grandma aka McGyver, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB, in the upper room, washing their paws…)

 

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