Value the person, not their talents

I’m working on a more involved post for this blog that may take another day or two to finish. So Friday’s big news will have to sit for a while. While we wait here’s a bit of what I usually report on weekends. My Sunday movie was on Friday. My church held a family movie night and showed Encanto. It was a pleasant Disney movie with a good message – value the person, not their talents. For these family events a white sheet is hung on the side of the building and we sit on the parking lot in the chairs we bring. One of the men makes popcorn and offers drinks for sale. The movie, like this one, is family friendly. It is a pleasant experience to watch a movie with friends. Alas, this one wasn’t done quite right. The problem was the show was scheduled to start at 8:30 – but sunset wasn’t until 9:15.There is a conflict between the time of sunset and wanting to get children home at a reasonable hour. By the September movie this isn’t an issue. Even though we were on the opposite side of the building we couldn’t see anything projected on to the sheet until it got darker. This show was turned on at about 9:20, even then some of the early dark scenes couldn’t be seen. I downloaded Michigan’s COVID data late last week. This dataset has a date of Tuesday, June 21, though I thought it was updated Wednesday. The number of new cases per day has dropped for seven weeks in a row. In the second week of May the peak was 4425 new cases in one day. This past week the peak as 1356 new cases, down from 1944 the week before. Looking good! The deaths per day is still in the 9-15 range (which is assuming not all cases in the week before the data was released have been reported to the state.