Aging Wisely: living today, preparing for tomorrow

This evening our Shalom Club was treated to a very special performance by the Tremble Clefs West Side Choir.  Yes, the Tremble Clefs because these are singers who Tremble due to Parkinson's Disease, a degenerative disease affecting an additional 60,000 people in the US each year.  At this time there is no cure.  But there is treatment for those who seek it out, and Tremble Clefs is one of the treatments.  One of our members, Fred Cohn, faced his diagnosis head on.  There's scarcely a day when I'm out and about in the community that I don't see Fred at the gym, in the clubhouse, walking down the street sun hat on, water bottle in hand.  He is courageous and he brought the Tremble Clefs to us.  One of the degenerative features of Parkinson's is the loss of muscles which flatten out the expression from your face, and may eventually silence your vocal muscles.  Fred is fighting back, as are the other 74 members of the west side Tremble Clef Choir, an...

49 Days of Intentions: A Healing Journey The Foundation for the Seventh Week Beginning the evening of Saturday, June 1, 2019 Malchut  — The Material World Our final week of this journey on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life focuses at  Malchut , the base of the central pillar, the level of the Tree that receives from all others. Energies from the higher  sefirot  manifest here, but they are hidden within what appears to us as the material world. This is where we can lose ourselves, and it is also the place in which we must find ourselves. Malchut  represents the "kingdom" where we live, and encourages us to become more open to the wonders of this place. So we seek to quiet ourselves in order to pay more exquisite attention to the myriad of impulses — physical, emotional, mental — with which each moment is filled. In this material world, the spiritual awaits realization. This week, I open to the fullness of my life. Day 43 Focus beginning the evenin...