“Long known as the first and second home to more than its fair share of creative types, New Mexico has also been the home, haven, and muse of two of the world’s leading teachers of the creativity process. Both Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, and Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, made their way to New Mexico from points east 
decades ago, and the world hasn’t been quite the same since.” Read more here.
“Suzan Shown Harjo still becomes tense when she recalls the only Washington Redskins home game she attended, nearly 40 years ago. After she moved to Washington, she and her husband were given tickets. Fans sitting nearby, apparently amused that American Indians were in their midst, pawed their hair and poked them, “not in an unfriendly way, but in a scary way,” Ms. Harjo said. . . Since the 1960s, Ms. Harjo has been at the center of efforts to persuade schools, colleges and professional sports teams to drop American Indian names and mascots that some consider derogatory.” Read more here.
Ari-Seth Cohen and some of the fashion-conscious women you’ve seen on his blog, Advance Style, are on the road for book signings and presentations:
Photo Exhibit, Presentation and Book Signing
Date: October 24, Thursday, 7 pm
Location: Stamford JCC, Stamford, Connecticut
Mirror Mirror- Representations and Reflections on Age and Aging, Presentation and Book Signing
Date: October 29, Tuesday
Location: London College of Fashion, London, England
Book Signing and Party at Koi Boutique
Date: November 23, Saturday
Location: Koi Boutique, South Pasadena, California
Check out these two great videos featuring our EngAGE community residents! [Email subscribers: click on the title of the post to go to the blog and see the videos.]
Bonny celebrates her winning presentation of the “First Responders” poem with Nate Hall, EngAGE Regional Programs Director and Food Program Coordinator (L.A.).
From Robin Hart, EngAGE Regional Programs Director:
The video and poem, “First Responders,” were created by the students of Jo McLachlan’s comedy improv group, “Do You Like To Laugh,” held at the Jasmine at Founders Village in Fountain Valley. They wanted to pay homage to police and firefighters who are always there when we need them. The women in the class are Bonny (she’s actually from Villa Anaheim and drives with Jo to the Jasmine to attend the group), Sharon, Peggy, Myraim, and Rose.
The group intended to present their work at the EngAGE Senior Olympics, but the only two who could attend were Bonny and Jo. Undaunted, Bonny read the poem in the talent competition and took home a runner-up medal for the Jasmine group! Well done, ladies.
And thanks to Helene Weinberg, Program Manager for the Long Beach Senior Arts Colony, for creating this video that captures the spirit of the 2013 EngAGE Senior Olympics event.
Canadian author Alice Munro is the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature — and the rare author to be acknowledged for short stories. She has been honored previously with the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, and she is a three-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award for fiction. Often popularly referred to as “our Chekov,” the focus of Munro’s fiction is her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario.
“Among writers, her name is spoken in hushed tones,” fellow Canadian author Margaret Atwood once wrote. “She’s the kind of writer about whom it is often said — no matter how well known she becomes — that she ought to be better known.”
“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 10/23/12:
They were born to be wild, but the knees have given out, the sense of balance isn’t what it used to be, and the reflexes have slowed a bit with the passing years. What’s an aging biker to do who still loves to hit the open road on his favorite motorcycle? Ride a three-wheeler! Read more here in the New York Times.
Richard Lester, 81, who directed the classic Beatles’ film musicals, 1964’s “A Hard Day’s Night” and 1965’s “Help!,” will receive the L.A. Film Critics Association’s career achievement honor. The honor will be presented at their awards ceremony on January 11th at the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City. Read more about it here, and read more about Richard Lester here.
