Monday Morning Memo - 9.22.2025
Wider Horizons Events and Information
The Healthy Aging Zoom workshop is on Wednesday, Sept 24th at 4:30 pm. The topic is Part 2: Weight Management – both Weight Gain AND Unintentional Weight Loss. The link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83967519884?pwd=oRvXsaDJbKdjmo1nRONQnTaEbANlvY.1
Thursday morning’s All-Member Zoom is happening, per usual, this Thursday, September 25 at 9:30 am. Sue Lerner will send out the link and questions on Wednesday.
Sunday Arboretum Walk, September 28. Meet Dick Zerbe at 9 am at the Arboretum’s Graham Visitors Center.
Did you know? … That we have a regularly-scheduled Movie Group, led by Denise Lishner, that usually meets on the last Monday of each month on Zoom, 4-6 pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85158929792?pwd=uYRNFom9767hztBbuz8iFqKda5ZYKb.1 ….Except this month it is on the last Tuesday--September 30, 4-6 pm. The movie is the classic In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. If you email Denise Lishner (deniselishner@comcast.net) or me, we’ll add you to the list of “members”--or you can just watch the Monday Memo for a reminder and jump on. If you are on the list, you’ll get the discussion questions ahead of time. If you want to keep on top of our activities, check out the Calendar on the “Members Only” section of the website. Don’t know how to get on the website? Contact Gray Wilson (gray.w.wilson@gmail.com) for help.
From Susan Jamison: For the past two years we have had a Wider Horizons Members’ Art Show in October. This year we will be holding it in the spring, probably mid-May. This will give our artists plenty of time to get ready and allow all the peripatetic members of the Planning Commitee to return from their travels…with the added benefit that we don't have to compete with all the winter holiday art shows.
But the biggest news of the week is about the 10th Anniversary Party, held last Thursday. There is so much to say about it…and so much to show (professionally and member taken photos, program notes) that there will be a special supplement to the Fall Newsletter sometime in October. Meanwhile, I’ll tease you with a video of one of the activities (see attached). It proves our members still have “the moves”! Stay tuned for information about how to purchase your raffle tickets this fall to win Homecoming (photo attached).
Sharing
Sue Lerner wants you to know that the next Autocracy Workshop is on Zoom, Sunday, September 28 at 4:00 pm. Participants will be envisioning the future we want for our family and community. This is the next step in creating our plan to support democracy. The link will be automatically sent to those who have attended previous workshops. If you have not participated in the past, please request the link from Sue (slerner_1@msn.com)
Denise Lishner has several favorite topics—among them the need for all of us to have a health advocate (or two). Here is a link to an informative presentation at Town Hall, October 6, on Health Advocacy: https://tinyurl.com/yeymkej6
Naomi Shiff knows you won’t want to miss the annual Seattle Weavers’ Guild sale, October 23-25. Go to this link for details: https://www.seattleweaversguild.com/annual-sale
Ellen Berg is very impressed with the Elderwise program hosted by the Memory Hub, as well as other programs that provide meaningful art opportunities for seniors, including those with dementia. She says: The Memory Hub is a wonderful resource – from its lending library featuring books on dementia to its Elderwise day care program which my cousin participates in. At Elderwise a small group of people with dementia gather to have discussions, paint, sing, and lunch together – the space, including an award-winning sensory garden – is beautiful and the facilitators are highly skilled. Here’s the Elderwise site, for anyone who needs it https://www.elderwise.org/ and in case you’d like to support the Frye Art Museum’s programming for seniors, here is that link: https://tinyurl.com/y9bctp5d
Rick Grossman encourages you to read about how using artificial sweeteners may impair brain function: https://neurosciencenews.com/artificial-sweeteners-cognitive-decline-29670/
Oh, my! You can tell it’s Fall and “Back to School” mentality. I was inundated with material to share. I’ll save some of it for the next dry period.