Senior Center

High ceilings, light, smiles…happy engaged humans. Playing cards, working out, creating works of art, eating meals together, learning, interacting. People in their 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and yes, even some over 100! Doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, teachers, actors, stay at home moms, workers in all fields. Members who traveled the world some who’ve never left Connecticut. High school drop outs to PHd’s to Poet Laureates & Pulitzer Prize winners. All coming together as equals. Sharing their strenghts, building bonds and friendships with the unlikliest of characters.

I have no children and for me the fear of being alone when I aged was real. Watching the seniors in my life, the loneliness and understimulation they experienced frightened me. Since then, I’ve witnessed my husband embrace and enjoy the Senior Center playing Bridge a few times a week. A place he said he would never go because it was for “old people”. He now values being around others and sharing a common interest. For me, his enthusiasm has shown me that I have nothing to fear.