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September Designated to Celebrate Active Adults Part IV – COMMUNITY

With September designated as National Senior Centers Month, we continue celebrating this year’s theme of Mind-Body-Spirit-Community, focusing on knowledge, programs, and resources for the Active Adult community.

This week we’ll focus on COMMUNITY, and opportunities to continue engaging with family, friends, neighbors, and the larger community in which each Windsong neighborhood is located, while still practicing health and safety guidelines.

Our Partners, Builder of Choice Series: Timberlake Cabinetry

“Working with Windsong is so nice for us because they have such a good way of doing things. It’s easy to understand their process. I know exactly what is expected, and if I do have questions, I know exactly the person to go to get the answer I need.”  - Alyssa Cornwell, Timberlake Cabinetry

September Designated to Celebrate Active Adults Part III – SPIRIT

With September designated as National Senior Centers Month, we continue celebrating this year’s theme of Mind-Body-Spirit-Community, focusing on knowledge, programs, and resources for the Active Adult community.

This week we’ll focus on SPIRIT, and ways in which Active Adults make choices and take action based on awareness of their values and purpose.

September Designated to Celebrate Active Adults Part II – BODY

With September designated as National Senior Centers Month, we continue celebrating this year’s theme of Mind-Body-Spirit-Community, focusing on knowledge, programs, and resources for the Active Adult community.

This week we’ll focus on BODY, and ways in which Active Adults can strengthen and maintain their body’s fitness, and contribute to their overall health and wellness.

September Designated to Celebrate Active Adults

September is officially National Senior Center Month, recognizing the contributions of organizations dedicated to providing knowledge, programs, and resources for the Active Adult community.

This year’s theme is Mind-Body-Spirit-Community. Each week this month, we’ll focus on a different component of the theme, beginning with MIND.

We Found Our New Home

A Boomer Poem, inspired by “Two of Us” (“On Our Way Home”), by The Beatles (1970)

The two of us looking always, never finding

the right place

One day we were out driving, suddenly smiling

We found it: OUR HOME!

We found our new home

This is our new home

We’re moving home

Self-Care for Active Adults for Better Health

Lately, we hear a lot about taking time for “self-care.” But it’s far more than a buzz word. By definition, Self-Care means, “the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own well-being and happiness, particularly during times of stress.”

Experts have identified five areas of focus for Active Adults in terms of self-care:

Home More Than Where the Heart Is for Active Adults

Lots of sentimental sayings focus on the idea of “home.” While each resonates differently, depending upon where you live, one thing is for certain: we carry with us a piece of each place we’ve called “home,” and those pieces, those feelings, are what we look for when we inhabit our current home.

Let’s look at a few of these ideas about “home”:

Fitness Tips “4” Active Adults

Maintaining physical fitness means far more than simply going outside and taking a daily walk. On the flip side, physical fitness doesn’t require you to complete a workout that’s so strenuous that it turns you off of exercise completely.

Our Partners, Builder of Choice Series: Morris Drywall

“Windsong’s mission trickles down even to the happy homeowners. Windsong does, and should, do well because of the quality and care they put into everything they do.”

- Mitch Morris, Morris Drywall