Senior Motivations

Thank you Chic, I am playing with my dogs, one of which is now a licensed service dog. I am a portrait artist, but because of cataracts I'm looking for a couple of art classes that I can test different art medias.

I like your idea of a wellness page, especially if you put a seniors grief section somewhere. It is an issue I don't see others addressing.
 

Shalimar, I think you hit it. I don't know who I am without my family to care for. I've never had a life in which I wasn't caring for someone else. Never! I haven't been in a position to ever be single. So I feel as if I am dealing with the loss of my family, and trying to figure out who I am without them. Most people figure that out before they start a family, but that wasn't an option for me. My father raised me to be a wife, and at 13, he married me off. I became a mother at 14, and I was the care giver for many in my family. It was my identity. Now the question is, "Who am I on my own?"
 
Lists and more lists is my answer to empty hours.
Been retired since 1991, and it took me a while to get used to all that free time.
As I'm becoming slower and slower (bad back-cane), it takes me longer and longer every day to finish the list existing mostly of chores, shopping, and leisure activities.
Lately I've been adding interesting foods, e.g. cheerios,(first time in 45 years); roast chicken, adding heaps of different spices--(Granddaughter just loved it); a very simple apple cake using rice bran oil, and more!
 
Good morning, Ina! Just to build on what Susie suggested....seems food and lists go together! Maybe you should start a thread "Someone's in the kitchen, with Ina" and just cover all your great recipes, while in the teaching/Julia mode! Yes, No....maybe, so??
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Meanderer, If I were to do a cook book, most of the recipes are from around the 1900's. I've only had one cookbook, and it came from my grandmother. They are simple filling food recipes that come from a time when there were few packaged foods back then. People don't want to know how to clean, cut, and preserve their food in today world.

But I am going to find a way back to my portrait art. I think I would also enjoy learning to weave. I'm looking for senior's continued education classes now. I just hope I can afford them now.
 
Ina, one of the things that I do to keep myself busy, is to study online. Like you, I married as a teenager (18) and spent most of my life raising my kids and taking care of the family, and working odd jobs for extra money as I could.
Since I am basically an "outside person", my hobbies were horseback riding, and camping and fishing with the kids.
Now that I am physically not fit to do those kinds of things (for the most part); I have learned to keep myself busy on the internet when I am not able to get outside.
I have a huge interest in the history of the world, such as archeology, as well as when the dinosours actually lived, and do they still exist (just called by other names), and things like that.
So, whatever catches my fancy, I read, study, and watch videos about it. sometimes I post about things in the forums (and mostly make people wish I would not, I suspect.....but, oh, well.)

There are some really great tutorials for drawing on the iPad, and the new iPad Pro that just came out is especially designed for people who want to draw on it.
I would love one of those, and I know that you would love it, too !
Watch the video about it from the Apple presentation (search on youtube) that shows all of the amazing things that it can do, and you will want one for sure !
It is just a little larger than the one you have now, so easier to do artwork with.
Here is just a little video that shows someone playing around with the iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil, which is designed to use with it.

http://youtu.be/rdcbLo2NayE
 
Ina said:
Meanderer, If I were to do a cook book, most of the recipes are from around the 1900's. I've only had one cookbook, and it came from my grandmother. They are simple filling food recipes that come from a time when there were few packaged foods back then. People don't want to know how to clean, cut, and preserve their food in today world.

But I am going to find a way back to my portrait art. I think I would also enjoy learning to weave. I'm looking for senior's continued education classes now. I just hope I can afford them now.
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People do enjoy learning how to cook like they did in the old days. I know I do and I'm pretty busy but still I do. My mother's friend had a collection of her recipes published. She approached a local bookseller shop in our hometown and he helped her with the compliation, structure and publishing end. The interest in learning older styles of cooking, food prep and preserving still exists, but it is helpful to get the right people on board to make your project work and to make it lucrative too.

Portaiture sounds really great. So does weaving. Senior centers vary in what they charge for classes depending upon enrollment and how much the instructor wants but it's nothing compared to adult education classes elsewhere. Good luck with this. I think it may be fulfilling for you. :)
 

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