There are so many ways
I hate to use the cliche “points of light” but I haven’t had another image come to mind since this article was sent to me earlier today. Aging creatively is happening all over North Carolina, much less the country, and yet often it’s an accident that news of one fantastic program spreads beyonds its narrow audience or geographical area. In this case, it’s the New Horizon’s bands, a part of the Osher Life-Long Learning Institute at Duke University. The News & Observer (Raleigh) profiled their Spring Fling in a recent issue and it’s worth a read. Check it out!
Surprised by Poetry
Greensboro was a better place last week when the poet, raconteur, and all-around inspiration Gary Glazner was in town. He came to teach us the ways of his Alzheimer’s Poetry Project but he found as much to learn as he had to teach. His partnership was with Poetry GSO, the marvellous program sponsored by the Greensboro Public Library but he was connected to LifeVerse, that fantastic outreach poetry program for seniors. Many of the important players in the local creative aging scene were there so here’s to hoping that an Alzheimer’s Poetry Project GSO is sprouting somewhere near here already! Sandra Redding wrote Poet delights Alzheimer’s patients in the News & Record.
“We Grieve Too”
“We grieve too” said the profesional from the Alzheimer’s Association (to the professional from Hospice). How true. We grieve at a loss because we have allowed ourselves to feel, to be humanly engaged with another. Aging, creative or otherwise, can mean walling ourselves off from feeling, so we feel no loss but then we lose so much.
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