Experience Talks 12/6: Mark Nepo and The Rev. Ed Bacon

Posted on December 3, 2015 by EngAGE

 

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01 - KPFK ListenLiveButtonTune in to Experience Talks, our weekly “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener,” on Sundays at 5:00 PM PT on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online, and now syndicated on up to 100
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Sunday 12/6 @ 5 PM PT

Mark Nepo and The Rev. Ed Bacon

with Host Dr. Connie Corley

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Photo Credit: Harpo Studios

MARK NEPO moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” His work is widely accessible and used by many and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A bestselling author, he has published sixteen books and recorded eleven audio projects. Recent work includes The Endless Practice (Atria), cited by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2014, Inside the Miracle (forthcoming from Sounds True, 2015), his book of poems, Reduced to Joy (Viva Editions), cited by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2013, a 6CD box set of teaching conversations based on the poems in Reduced to Joy (Sounds True, 2014), and Seven Thousand Ways to Listen (Atria), which won the 2012 Books for a Better Life Award. Mark was part of Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. He has also been interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. The Exquisite Risk was cited by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2005, calling it “one of the best books we’ve ever read on what it takes to live an authentic life.” Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He continues to offer readings, lectures, and retreats. Please visit Mark at: www.MarkNepo.com, http://threeintentions.com and info@wmespeakers.com.

Ed BaconTHE REV. ED BACON is rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, California – a 4000-member inclusive, multi-ethnic urban parish with a reputation for effective social action and a radically inclusive spirit.  Rev. Bacon serves on the boards of several community organizations and interfaith groups, and is a passionate advocate for peace and justice in our community, the nation, and the world.  He has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Oprah Winfrey Network’s Super Soul Sunday, a regular guest host on Oprah Radio’s Soul Series and a contributor on Oprah.com. He is the author of 8 Habits of Love: Overcome Fear and Transform Your Life.

 

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Andalucía: Food Forward + Knit and Crochet

Posted on December 2, 2015 by EngAGE

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Every month EngAGE delivers free Farmers Market food to a property through the Food Forward Program. On Andalucia’s recent turn to receive, 16 boxes of fresh produce were distributed to the residents. There was a beautiful array of fruits and vegetables that everyone enjoyed.

 

Craig Gibson teaches both Knitting and Crochet at Andalucia. We have needles for both knitting and crochet, and tons of yarn. Some of the students started on sweaters, and some are making other things for family members. Craig is an actor and has a beautiful, sonorous voice – the ladies are all quite smitten with him.

 

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~ Elizabeth Sampson, Regional Programs Director

EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.

 

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Tim Carpenter Receives Durfee Foundation Stanton Fellowship

Posted on December 1, 2015 by EngAGE

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Tim Carpenter, Founder and Executive Director of EngAGE, is honored to be a recipient of a 2016 Stanton Fellowship from the Durfee Foundation.

Stanton Fellows are defined as “the most knowledgeable, inquisitive, ambitious, influential and highly networked leaders – the ones who are best positioned to identify and solve a thorny problem.”

The Durfee Foundation’s prestigious Stanton Fellowship provides up to six fellows with $100,000 each over a two-year period “to think deeply about the intractable problems in their sector, and to tease out solutions that will improve life for the people of L.A.”

This year’s recipients are:

Tim Carpenter, Founder/CEO, EngAGE
Helmi Hisserich, Asst General Manager, Housing and Community Investment Department, City of Los Angeles
Leslie A. Ito, President and CEO, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
Hilda Maldonado, Executive Director, Multilingual and Multicultural Education Department, Los Angeles Unified School District
Kerry Morrison, Executive Director, Hollywood Property Owners Alliance
Johng Ho Song, Executive Director, Koreatown Youth & Community Center

An Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, December 10 from 3:30 – 5:30 pm at the Center for Preservation of Democracy / Japanese American National Museum at 369 E. 1st St., Los Angeles 90012. The public is welcome.

Learn more about Stanton Fellowship at the Durfee Foundation website.

 

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Giving Tuesday: Your Opportunity to Support the Work We Do at EngAGE

Posted on November 30, 2015 by EngAGE

December 1st, Giving Tuesday, is a global day to celebrate giving back. Charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.

We hope you’ll choose to give to EngAGE. We transform aging and the way people think about aging by turning affordable senior apartment communities into vibrant centers of learning, wellness, and creativity.

And we transform people:

“It has benefited me so much. I came from the era when I would hear myself saying, ‘Oh, I’m just a housewife.’ Now, I can sit and I can say to you, I am an artist, I am an actor, I am a poet. Isn’t that wonderful?” ~ Jean, age 70

You can help us continue the transformations by sending a tax-deductible donation to:

EngAGE, Inc.
240 E. Verdugo Avenue, Suite 100
Burbank, CA 91502
Attn: Tim Carpenter, Executive Director

Learn more about EngAGE on our website and in this wonderful video, “A Dose of Creativity,”  produced by Aroha Philanthropies. Thank you!

Aroha Philanthropies’ “A Dose of Creativity” from Spoke on Vimeo.

 

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Sterling Court: Gardening, Art, and Halloween Fun

Posted on November 29, 2015 by EngAGE

Archstone -logoArchstone Foundation funded Second Harvest to provide Community Gardens to some of the properties to which they currently provide food.  Gratefully, Sterling Court is one of five EngAGE properties that receive free services, including a monthly Master Gardener on site, soil, fertilizer, seedlings, tools, and gloves. This is an organic, edible, community garden. Raised planters were built on site.  Regional Programs Director Meloney Morse: Gardeners planted their winter crops and are looking forward to harvesting new foods and spices. One resident commented that she wants to plant winter squash and make autumn soup with it.

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2015_10-SC-2Art Class instructor Nicole Garlardo: We finished up still life paintings with details like background and shadows to show special relations. This student had a vision to do flowers and a girl smelling the flowers. She worked on that at home, and came to class to work and for critique.  We developed a collage of resident photos from EngAGE programming.  We also made a colorful border on poster-board of many patterns. We used markers, pen, color pastels, and crayon. Then we placed the pictures in the center to display in community room.

 

Site Leader Nicole Galarado reports that last month’s Halloween Potluck had a nice atmosphere, with Halloween decorations throughout the community room, and a DJ providing great music. There was a pumpkin decorating contest with four participants and everyone took a prize home. Everyone also danced a bit — several residents even did the Cupid Shuffle!

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~ Meloney Morse, Regional Programs Director

EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.

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Worth Repeating: Peter Hubbell Wants Advertisers to “Get” Old

Posted on November 28, 2015 by EngAGE

“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 11/25/14:

WORTH-REPEATINGPeter Hubbell, CEO of the BoomAgers ad agency and author of The Old Rush: Marketing for Gold in the Age of Aging, argues that advertisers need to pay attention to older consumers, not just the younger crowd. Most of us would agree that we’re generally left out of all but specialized (read: negative/indicating decline/impairment/medical) marketing efforts. But Hubbell takes it a step further and now refuses to wear Levi’s jeans:

“Levi’s embodied my values of hard work, authenticity and patriotism,” he says. “Now I’ve aged out of their marketing cohort. I’m looking at their ads of these tattooed kids with messy hair, ripped clothing and pierced skin making out in the back of the car and I’m going: ‘That’s not my brand.’

“Either I no longer matter to them, which is disturbing to me after all my years of loyalty, or they truly don’t get the core values of their brand. So I went out of my way to find a new brand of jeans.”

It’s one thing to decide not to try a brand because their advertising doesn’t appeal to you, but would you leave a brand that works for you just because their advertising doesn’t? Read the interview with Peter Hubbell here, and be sure to read the comments!

[An interesting quote: “Everybody thinks aging people are trying to feel younger, but they’re simply trying to stay current.” And a hat tip to Ann Davis Garvin for the link.]

 

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Coventry Court: Art Class

Posted on November 27, 2015 by EngAGE

Art Class encourages freedom and creative expression, and lets residents express themselves through art without boundaries, limitations, or criticism. Instructor Toni Ivashkov: We’ve been focused on finishing up our impressionist oil paintings. This was a great exploration for many of the residents. Some discovered that they absolutely love working with oil paints. Others feel more comfortable with acrylics. Other students are also finishing up their hand portrait projects and transfer paintings.

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~ Meloney Morse, Regional Programs Director

EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.

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