Monday Morning Memo - 7.20.2026
Wider Horizons Events and Information
Thursday Morning All-Member Zoom Dialogue with Sue Lerner on July 23 at 9:30 am (and you don’t have to be a member to attend). Open 2 links to join the zoom meeting and follow steps 1 and 2 below. Look for a reminder on Wednesday:
Open the invitation here then go to #2 below
Open the zoom link in the invitation
Join the Arboretum Walk, led by Richard Zerbe, Sunday, July 26. Meet at 9 am at the Arboretum’s Graham Visitors Center.
Interested in attending a Seattle Storm WNBA game with other Wider Horizons folks? Gary Sampson has arranged a group of tickets for $25 per person for the 2:00 pm Storm vs Chicago Sky team game on Sunday, August 16th. We will figure out a way to carpool to facilitate transportation to the venue (Climate Arena at Seattle Center). For more info contact Gary at 206-353-1141 or gary.sampson111@gmail.com. We need to reserve and pay for our group of tickets by July 31.
Sharing
Sue Lerner is hosting a Democracy Action Group meeting on Zoom on Sunday, July 26 at 4 pm. See the attached description and link. All are welcome.
Patricia Henley shared a fascinating article on a potential research breakthrough about Alzheimer’s that indicates it may begin elsewhere than in the brain: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/for-years-we-searched-for-alzheimers-in-the-brain-now-researchers-suggest-it-may-begin-elsewhere-6050552
If you want a refreshing perspective on AI, read this link: https://open.substack.com/pub/onbeing/p/on-our-lives-with-ai?r=hzkzg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Margret Buchmann shared this link to an article that presents, in detail, the benefits of walking backwards: https://activitytracker.app/blog/the-benefits-of-walking-backwards/
Rick Grossman loves this description of Sunset Grove, now streaming on PBS: “a combination of elderly amateur detectives, dry humor, and Nordic crime.” From Walter Presents, in Finnish with English subtitles. Cozy. Year 1 has 8 episodes and may require a PBS Passport...or check to see if you can get it with Amazon Prime.
And a piece about an interesting elderly athlete hiking the Appalachian Trail: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/well/appalachian-trail-hiking-record-grey-beard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x1A.8-Mu.hQD_G2uhGSAJ&smid=url-share
Monday Morning Memo Bonus:
This is for those who love poetry and those who don’t. And also for those who loved Sam Neill:
Sam Neill, ( September 14, 1947 - July 13, 2026 )
Dr. Alan Grant to the world, winegrower at Two Paddocks to his neighbors in Central Otago, New Zealand. In the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown, alone at the vineyard, he began filming himself reading poems on his phone and posting them for strangers, his own quiet way of keeping isolation at bay. He never gave the series a name; fans called it The Self Isolation Tapes.