This series will address aging issues relevant to emotional health, resilience and well-being.
Guest Writers Blog
This blog presents the ideas and creative thinking of some of Utah's talented older adult writers. Their submissions are to inform and entertain, not to present policy or opinion positions of the Utah Commission on Aging. Enjoy.
A few sunny days in the 50’s have me out on the road on my trike. It might be one of the best soul-cleansing moves I’ve made in the recent past. I feel liberated, with a renewed sense of life that has been missing for a while. Cabin fever is in my rear-view mirror as I point the trike toward the Wasatch mountain peaks before me.
Remember when you were a kid and with the first snowfall you couldn’t wait to get the snowsuit on, complete with the mittens-on-a-string? You made a snowman, snow cave, or went sleigh riding on the nearest hill.
“We don’t stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw