Yes, I do have an agenda! Here it is...

The #1 problem for creatives is figuring out which of all the ideas zipping around their brain are the ones worth their time & energy & resources.  MOST creatives, I'm sad to say, are sidelined - not by their lack of ingenuity or commitment to pursuing specific ideas, but by not identifying & setting aside the overwhelming majority of ideas, which aren't worth more than a nod of interest.

What's my agenda for 2015, what do I want to pursue this year?  

• Senior Mission Statement project  - take the lead, but work on through the Pastor's Office (who is their Senior Initiatives coordinator?)
• Healing Choirs - I croak more than sing, but can spearhead organizing a resource base for community singers available for people who would appreciate an in-home hymn-along, introduce a monthly songfest at Cairnwood Village.  Make it open to olders & ancients throughout our community, arrange rides to & from.  Through Pay It Forward?
• Write Gran-FAM-boly! - a book of about 20 activities for families & friends to do with aunts & uncles, grandparents & greats, and other grands.
• Write & submit crowdfund request - underwrite professional development, computer expertise & 2015 workshops & conferences, including  Leading to Well-Being (the only one I'm definitely going to) and - hopefully - National Conference for Creative Aging,  BlogHer 2015,  Choosing Conscious Elderhood,  Shamanic Wisdom for Living - and Dying - Well,  Carolyn Myss - Navigating Changes in Your Life 
• Final Wish File - work with the Pastor's Office to develop a way for people of all ages to note preference for ministers, hymns, even location for their funeral.
• Monthly THANK YOU Potlucks - another Pay It Forward project, where groups of families put on a monthly pot luck at Cairnwood Village in appreciation for all the awesome role models & mentors.  Make it open to olders & ancients throughout our community, arrange rides to & from.  
• Movie & Martinellis - expand this to be a community use, not just myself, Anne & John putting it on.  Encourage residents to invite youngers.
• Cyber Access for the Technically Timid - working with all ages, especially oldsters & ancients, to write musings meanderings memories, in a similar fashion to how I was Mom's scribe & muse for writing her 2000-2001 Mindwalker1910 e-mails.  Much to be gained, honoring the past. 
• Encourage BACNC & Cairnwood Village ties - our local college's strong caring character makes this a natural fit! 

  

One last, always & forever! - read watch listen observe experience & share everything I can about eldering, about "s-aging not aging," about living as expansively as possible, however young or old.  Build my knowledge & resource base, then freely offer all I know to help families & support oldersters & ancients stay engaged energized empowered!