A COMMUNITY, IF YOU WILL

Leave the doors wide open & wonders will arrive!

As I mentioned in my premier posting, I sailed into this best & brightest of all my life's endeavors with absolutely no set-in-stone concept of what it will look like, how it will work. Today, I have a bit more idea of how it might work, what it might look like.

This morning, I had the delight of meeting Dana Greene, a licensed massage therapist & friend of the epic Susan A.  Dana got some wheels clicking in my noggin.  It seems to me that one area of "senior" care that has been sort of neglected is a strong network of support services for people who are older AND relatively sound.  I'm not saying this is a virgin niche, but it certainly is under-served.  

What I'd like to develop is a consortium - a community, if you will - of people who can help olders tap into and draw out their inner elder.  Those services - support care, I'd rather call it - would include licensed massage therapists like Dana & my dear friend, Dawn Kintner, ed counselors (think "BACNC" & "PSU/Abington"), art instructors, exercise specialists, yoga practioners, meditation leaders, legacy coaches & gad-abouts (like myself), social network masters, spiritual guides, nutritionists, music therapists, emotional support, life coaches, stay-in-place services, activity directors, late-life career counseling - - and more possibilities than I can think of right now.  

The one thing we will have in common will be an inspired drive to support our friends in drawing as out their inner engaged, energized, empowered elder.  EVERYONE has one!  For some, this might require a minimum of support; others may need a lot.  Which leads me to a most important point...

There is no one way to drawing out & welcoming an inner elder.  That is the challenge & the beauty of eldering.  Shake off any idea of success or failure; instead, embrace the concept of more.  

How will this all happen?  I can tell you for absolute sure - it already is!  The energies are pinging like crazy, just needing to be drawn out of the ether & into reality. 

That might sound all new agey & "out there," but it's the best way I can explain what I've experienced happening, slowly slowly since 10/01, speeded up since 07/12.  It's what I have dedicated myself to identifying, to giving form & substance.  My vision is that by creating a consortium - a community, if you will - of inspired providers, a community of older friends dear to my heart will be served, with the ripples of inspired care reaching out further & further to who knows where?!  (Not too ambitious, am I!!)