Travel Expense Scandal(PART 2 OF 3)
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:12 PM
barclay1720@aol.com wrote:
Hi Diane,
We don't have many glorious sunny days, do we?
In any case, tomorrow morning, Mayumi will arrive at Vancouver.
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She is probably disappointed by the lousy weather in Vancouver.
As you say, however, when you're happy it doesn't matter the weather.
How true it is.
Actually, Mayumi is quite happy to arrive in Vancouver because she'll start her new life in Vancouver---she hopes.
But the problem is that she hasn't got a landed immigrant visa yet.
She'll try to find a job as cook or related worker.
As you know, it is hard for a person with a tourist status to find a job.
Anyhow, there is a way where there is a will.
I'm pretty sure that Mayumi will be able to sing even in the rain.
On the coming Thurstday, I'll take her to Christ Church Cathedral at 11:30 AM.
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She is quite fascinated to meet you because she is interested in volunteer work.
It could be an eye-opener for Mayumi.
But it all depends on how well she feels Thursday morning.
If she is too tired or ill, she can't make it.
I hope that she'll be fine and that we'll have a glorious sunny day on Thursday.
Today, however, the weather is lousy---one of those days.
I'm pretty sure that you prefer reading my article to singing in the rain and catching pneumonia.
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Please click the following link:
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"Happy in the Rain"
I hope you'll enjoy it.
Bye now...
Your smiling and romantic Bohemian, Kato
with a lot of love as always...
From: diane705@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:15:16 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Are you singing in the rain? :-)
To: barclay1720@aol.com
Hi Kato,
Well, isn't that exciting!
Mayumi will finally be arriving.
Hopefully she'll not be too tired and you'll both be able to come to the Cathedral for lunch.
It will be our last one before the new year as the holidays this year both fall on the Thursday.
I'll certainly look forward to seeing you.
Just join the line and blend right in and everyone will treat you very well---even, I'm sure, the fellows who will be in the line.
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Some are a bit crazy but if you just ignore them they'll move on.
I'll be round with coffee real shortly after you sit down and am excited to meet Mayumi.
It seems that they have a long line now of congregation members who want to help at the soup kitchen so they won't need any volunteers for a while at least.
But if Mayumi likes what we're doing she can keep it in the back of her mind for the future.
First thing, of course, is to get her a job.
Hopefully it won't be too difficult a task.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for sure.
...hope to see you on Thursday, if not, sometime before Christmas hopefully.
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Thanks for sending more for my viewing pleasure,
Love, Diane
You know, Diane, there are so many volunteers---just like you---working for the unfortunate and the low-imcomers.
Yes, you're telling me, Kato.
I just want those big spenders to think about volunteers, the unfortunate as well as the low-incomers.
I agree on that.
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【Himiko's Monologue】
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Have you ever been to the soup kitchen?
The earliest occurrences of soup kitchens are difficult to identify.
Throughout history, societies have invariably recognised a moral obligation to feed the hungry.
The philosopher Simone Weil wrote that feeding the hungry when one has resources to do so is the most obvious obligation of all, and that as far back as Ancient Egypt.
Soup has long been one of the most economical and simple ways to supply nutritious food to large numbers of people.
The earliest modern soup kitchens were established by the inventor Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814), who was employed as an aide-de-camp to the Elector of Bavaria in the 1790s.
He was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.
He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Loyalist forces in America during the American Revolutionary War.
After the end of the war he moved to London where his administrative talents were recognized when he was appointed a full Colonel.
In 1784 received a knighthood from King George III.
A prolific designer, he also drew designs for warships.
He later moved to Bavaria and entered government service there, being appointed Bavarian Army Minister and re-organizing the army.
In 1791, was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
He spent eleven years in Bavaria, reorganizing the army and establishing workhouses for the poor.
He also invented Rumford's Soup, a soup for the poor, and established the cultivation of the potato in Bavaria.
A "soup kitchen" was born as part of his "social work."
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In any case, I hope Kato will write another interesting article soon.
So please come back to see me.
Have a nice day!
Bye bye ...
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(To be followed)