Living at Homewoods on the Willamette

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 Chateau de Mort, Pittock Mansion, 1986. Commissioned. My first hyperdrama. About the adventures of bringing a new dramatic form to the Pittock Mansion. From Oregon Magazine: "Watch out, mama, hyperdrama's gonna mess with your Pittock Mansion!" www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/watchout.htm An introduction to hyperdrama (video) https://youtu.be/H9pYzjzKrvc?si=HlEbWYMqFcnGtlFe Hyperdrama archive www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/hdrama.htm Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

From Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/201312/getting-old-sucks Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

 Secrets of the blue zone, a Netflix series about living to 100. Trailer https://youtu.be/it-8MIm29bI?si=bv4ykneXCN3eFh-A Summary in six minutes https://youtu.be/O4dIaLeuzOw?si=YTglMDv2_leFCioD Book on which series is based https://a.co/d/a6Uu9u1 Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

  The real stuff from poets who write literature. https://interestingliterature.com/2017/03/10-of-the-best-poems-about-growing-old/ Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

  When I was in high school, and a sports fan, there was periodic speculation about whether or not the mile could be run in under four minutes. Track stars were trying but always failed. Then in 1954 a miler named Roger Bannister took to a  track in Oxford, England, and the rest is history. This Day In History tells the story: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-four-minute-mile This sort of thing -- folks believing "it can't happen" -- occurs all the time. When I was managing editor of Oregon Business Magazine in the 1980s, we published a special issue addressing the question, "Will the Dow Jones Average ever break 1000?" (Today the Dow was almost 39,000! By June, 2022, 1755 milers had broken 4 minutes.) Remarkably enough, online I found a film of the event -- narrated by Bannister himself! https://youtu.be/wTXoTnp_5sI?si=PBdrv3ezkEfCP-SA Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

  Although the Homewoods website provides no useful daily info online (the motivation for this blog), they do an excellent job communicating with residents via fliers and memos distributed in mail boxes and by holding frequent meetings with residents. And the website does a good job at other things, such as communicating the Home woods philosophy and mission. Moreover, you won't find any raving about "the golden years" anywhere. Here are links to some of the more valuable pages of the Homewoods home page: About us https://homewoods.org/about/ About the Homewoods nonprofit heritage https://homewoods.org/about/nonprofit-heritage/ About the history of Homewoods https://homewoods.org/about/local-history/ Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

 Have special needs? Clackamas County provides a variety of resources. Touch link address, select Open on popup menu. https://www.clackamas.us/socialservices/seniorresources.html Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

  Folks keep living longer, and companies that cater to independent and assisted living seniors grow in kind. When we considered independent living in retirement after Harriet's heart attack, I was overwhelmed by how many facilities there were in the Portland area. We ended up touring 38 places (free lunch!) before making a choice. All of these places have a similar message in a style that ranges from enthusiastic to exaggeration to hype. At the Vineyard Place website you can read, " We are completely dedicated to making sure you or your loved one have fun, exciting days and nights full of life!" Your golden years await you! You find pop culture embracing the same rosy view, especially in music. Here's Kenny Rogers singing about how wonderful it is to grow old together: https://youtu.be/8LXKm1CJ998?si=dnhUBrTjYTw6jTCD But there are dissenters. Harvard math professor Tom Lehrer, whom I consider the best satirist since Jonathan Swift, brings his dark and politically inc...