APRIL 7, 2022

         Another cloudy day, but doesn’t affect me a bit.  My life is centered here, in my wonderful apartment, in this six-months-new home where I live.  Every day seems to bring more happy surprises.  

        Today, Ivian, my new “boss” (she doesn’t like that term) came up here to see the amazing Easter display in our “Front Room”.  Irene Witkowski (one of the residents on our floor) had all these decorative eggs, so exquisitely colored, covered with sequins and velvet.  

         Irene had mentioned to me that she had some homemade Easter decorations she could lend. (I try to adorn our central “living room/reception area” on our floor with seasonal decorations.) So I expected maybe a few crocheted doilies---and then she started lovingly unwrapping these beauties!

         You must zoom in on your phone or computer to see all the incredible detail. My favorite is the white bunny on the purple bench in front!

 

       That Irene offered this display was a small “miracle”. Then Maria, my friend and neighbor, helped me set out the display. It was her idea to get her pasta serving dish and set up the birds around it. The fun we had just decorating was another sweet gift to my day.

Our dining friends came up last evening to see it.  And when Ivian saw it today, she really (over) reacted!  She confessed a lifelong “obsession” with “knickknacks”, so she was REALLY pleased to see this!  She stopped by Irene’s room to thank her—and hugged me goodbye.  

She is the new Head of Resident Services, and thus supervises all of us floor reps. But I knew her previously as the kindest and most helpful person manning our all-important Front Desk.  The Front Desk is the Information Center, our Help Desk, our Nerve Center, for all questions and problems large and small.  I was shrieking (I also can overreact at times) with joy when I heard that she had taken this new post.

 Call them surprises, or gifts, or small blessings, or tiny miracles- I happily call them another day here at Ascension, my sweet home.