Social Connections and Friendship
As we age, we need to keep making new acquaintances because our group of friends (including family) will diminish with aging unless we renew renew renew. As Pat Schneider describes in The Writer As an Artist: A New Approach to Writing Alone and With Others, writing groups are an especially rich resource for forming friendships.
The Joy of Making New Friends
Dave Barry’s Old Dog Teaches Him New Tricks -Lessons on Friendship
Intergenerational Hamilton Chorus – Parkinson’s
Aging in Community
Oak Hill aims to offer affordable, fulfilling alternative to retirement homes
Adopt A Scientist – Intergenerational Volunteer Program
Villages, a Vital Volunteerism
Toronto Study of Social Connections among Seniors
Writing Tips
Thirteen Tips for Becoming a Great Writer
Writing Exercise
Albert deSilver in Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life suggests writers read carefully – copying out sentences which strike them.
Copy out five sentences from books or other writings that inspire you with their meaning, concrete description, emotions, sense of character, or surprise. Then journal for ten minutes about what you like about these sentences.
With this friendship shadow photo,
I bid you adieu,
Ellen