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Music to calm anxiety, videos on making a victory garden, demonstrations on how to make face masks, children's games, spiritual talks and meditations, movies from the olden days, "specials" from the early days of television, music concerts of all kinds -- For those of us fortunate enough to have a high speed internet connection, the world is our oyster! I spoke with a 94-year-old woman today, whom I know from duplicate bridge and she also sings with the Catholic choir. She doesn't "do" computers and so there she sits. Usually she plays bridge three times a week and goes to church and choir practice, rounding out her social life and keeping her active and her mind young. I love her! What I would give to take her an iPad and be able to sit with her and teach her to use it, then she could play bridge with her friends. She would be enthralled with the world she could see. She has a son in Rogers, so he will be bringing Easter dinner to her house next Sunday. There is so much activity for those of us who are sedentary, and computer fans. I've thought all day about something to bring mental stimulus to my friend. I wonder what she would think of Sudoku? Next time I go out for supplies, think I'll look for a book of them!
“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.” ―
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