May 27, 2021

1:00 p.m. on the South Lawn of First United Methodist Church of Loveland, 533 N Grant Avenue, Loveland. Bring your chair.  In case of rain: under the pavilion at the Loveland Fairgrounds, 700 South Railroad Avenue.   Call or text Clay Carter for further information: (970) 616-9686. Telling My Name In one of Agatha Christie’s novels,

May 13, 2021

Older, Wiser, Happier Support Group Meeting 1:00 P.M. Mountain Time 2nd & 4th Thursdays, South Lawn of First United Methodist Church of Loveland 533 North Grant Avenue, Loveland, CO Incremental Wisdom Seek and you shall find; knock and it will be opened to you. (Jesus, The Bible, Matthew 7:7) Everything builds. Increment upon increment. There’s

April 29, 2021

Some Benefits of Reading Mental Stimulation Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can help keep your brain active and engaged.  This prevents it from losing power. Just like any other muscle in the body, the brain requires exercise to keep it strong and healthy, so the phrase “use it or lose it” is particularly

April 22, 2021

Friendship’s Particularity Thoughts and quotes from the book by Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore, Aging Thoughtfully, Oxford University Press. 2017. Friendship matters for aging. As it does, we need to ponder the whole texture of a real friendship. A key aspect of both friendship and aging: the nuanced sensitivity to the particular friendship. Some

April 8, 2021

Continual Creativity The creative state of mind is one whose interest in what is being done is wholehearted and total, like that of a young child. With this spirit, a person is always open to learning what is new, to perceiving new differences and new similarities, leading to new orders and structures, rather than always

March 25, 2021

Perception of Presence      Skillful authors can, in a relatively brief space, convey a character’s effect on others.  Here are examples.        Detective Chief Inspector John Crow left the train. The ticket agent flickered an interested glance at Crow as he passed through the barrier. Crow wore no hat and his domed skull drew the

March 11, 2021

Sight that Might Improve with Age When we are willfully blind, it is in the presence of information that we could know, and should know, but don’t know because it makes us feel better not to know…Our blindness grows out of the small, daily decisions that we make, which embed us more snugly inside our

February 25, 2021

Self-Actualization      American psychologist Abraham Maslow contended that people have basic needs that must be met in order to have full satisfaction in living. Among them was what he called self-actualization. Even if all the other needs are satisfied, a new discontent and restlessness may eventually develop if we are not doing what we are intrinsically

February 8, 2021

Who Am I? I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. (Apostle Paul, Bible, Romans 7:15,19) George

January 28, 2021

Traits of Belonging      The term “community” is used to refer to many kinds of connections, from shared ethnic origin to geographical proximity.  Let us look more specifically at the feelings and behaviors that demonstrate unity of people in a group.  Unity exists when certain conditions exist between people. Identify with each other as members of