I went in for a fitness evaluation this past week relating to our health insurance premiums, and I am going to be working on the goal of "flexibility" and "stability" in walking this next year. My balance has deteriorated due to having M.S. for 20 years, and there are wonderful things that rehabilitation specialists can do to help my physical flexibiity and walking stability. HOWEVER, when I was thinking about these personal goals, I decided that I am going to work with being a more flexibile and stabile person emotionally, as well. I have a pretty good dose of stability already, but I think working on peace, balance, and de-stressing our lives can always be a help for longivity in fulfilling our life dreams. And as for flexibility, this is something I have to work on all the time. When you are a person with a gift for planning big things, a person with some God-given vision, and someone who leads people, flexiblity is hard to come by, but a GREAT thing to practice. Please pray for me as I work on these physical and mental goals for 2012.
We had a boom of visitors this past week. The local media coverage of our Christmas tree display has helped. While I was working at the desk, a mom and daughter were touring the Main Gallery, and I heard a lovely tiny voice singing the "Glorias" from Angels We have Heard on High. This little child was inspired by the trees, and starting singing her Christams program song--I was touched.
Gerard Fiehler and Ken Craft had a great day of digitizing the Paitzdorf/Uniontown church book records at Concordia Historical Institute on Wednesday. A special thanks to archivist, Rev. Marvin Huggins--and his staff for making this important project possible. The next step for those records is Photoshop improvements and copying them into the portfolios and creating digital copies. This is a big job, but we are making great efforts.
Tomorrow is the Christmas Home Tour in east Perry County. The tour will help fund the United in Christ Lutheran School trip to Washington, D.C. The museum will be open during the tour for visitors, and tickets for the tour can still be purchased at the school, and at our site and Saxon Lutheran Memorial tomorrow. I wish them luck--it is such an awesome idea and effort.
I will be narrating a cantata at Abbey Road Christian Church, in Cape Girardeau, on Sunday. The beautiful cantata was written by David Giles and Dr. Steve Jordan. The performance is during the worship service at 10:30 a.m. and there is no charge. Come and join us. Abbey Road is just off Lexington Avenue.
I had fun teaching the advanced "site administration" course for Dr. Rhodes yesterday at Southeast Missouri State University. Our relationship with the university is important to me, and I always walk away from working with the students with a lot of hope for the future. I talked with them about non-profit administration, museum admin. needs, and my work in Kansas and Oklahoma, specifically on Route 66.
I'm going to take the greyhounds for a little stroll while the sun is shining a bit. It has been a lovely couple of days.
Take Care,
Carla Jordan
We had a boom of visitors this past week. The local media coverage of our Christmas tree display has helped. While I was working at the desk, a mom and daughter were touring the Main Gallery, and I heard a lovely tiny voice singing the "Glorias" from Angels We have Heard on High. This little child was inspired by the trees, and starting singing her Christams program song--I was touched.
Gerard Fiehler and Ken Craft had a great day of digitizing the Paitzdorf/Uniontown church book records at Concordia Historical Institute on Wednesday. A special thanks to archivist, Rev. Marvin Huggins--and his staff for making this important project possible. The next step for those records is Photoshop improvements and copying them into the portfolios and creating digital copies. This is a big job, but we are making great efforts.
Tomorrow is the Christmas Home Tour in east Perry County. The tour will help fund the United in Christ Lutheran School trip to Washington, D.C. The museum will be open during the tour for visitors, and tickets for the tour can still be purchased at the school, and at our site and Saxon Lutheran Memorial tomorrow. I wish them luck--it is such an awesome idea and effort.
I will be narrating a cantata at Abbey Road Christian Church, in Cape Girardeau, on Sunday. The beautiful cantata was written by David Giles and Dr. Steve Jordan. The performance is during the worship service at 10:30 a.m. and there is no charge. Come and join us. Abbey Road is just off Lexington Avenue.
I had fun teaching the advanced "site administration" course for Dr. Rhodes yesterday at Southeast Missouri State University. Our relationship with the university is important to me, and I always walk away from working with the students with a lot of hope for the future. I talked with them about non-profit administration, museum admin. needs, and my work in Kansas and Oklahoma, specifically on Route 66.
I'm going to take the greyhounds for a little stroll while the sun is shining a bit. It has been a lovely couple of days.
Take Care,
Carla Jordan
