Monday Morning Memo - 1.19.2026
Wider Horizons Events and Information
Thursday morning’s All-Member Zoom is happening as usual this Thursday, January 22 at 9:30 am. Sue Lerner will send out the link and questions on Wednesday.
Join the Arboretum Walk, Sunday, January 25. Meet at 9 am at the Arboretum’s Graham Visitors Center.
Save the Date: It Takes a Village: Aging in Place, Monday, February 9, 7:30-8:30 pm, Town Hall…click on this link for the address/location and more information: It Takes a Village: Aging in Place | Town Hall Seattle -- Join Rebecca Crichton, Executive Director of Northwest Center for Creative Aging; Chris Alin, NEST; Rebecca Fogarty, PNA Village; Denise Klein, Wider Horizons;, and members from Wider Horizons (and other villages). Expand your understanding about the benefits of belonging to a village and why we say: “If you’ve seen one village, you’ve seen one village!”
Sharing
Michael Kischner shared a link to a great article about how to be with people who have dementia (attached)…plus two very moving letters to the editor about the the writers’ personal experiences with dementia. Well worth a read!
And one about the joy of dancing (and age and gender): https://open.substack.com/pub/aconsiderableage/p/mambo-italiana?r=hzkzg&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay