End of the Summer

End of the summer. In a way, I use this time as a "new year" as I do what I look forward to being an annual health retreat . Out here in Desert Hot Springs, I have been "forced" to slow down in temperatures of 117 plus. Maybe its all those years of schools with their September start. This time, I am adjusting my attitude to one of gratitude. I haven't watched the news for a week and it has helped a lot, although I do know about Ted Kennedy's passing, Images of what is wrong with everything over and over hasn't been helpful to my maintaining a positive vision of the world and our future, thereby making my effort to do so much more labor intensive.

So let me start by saying that among the many things I have to be grateful for, the arrival of the Members of the Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network Leadership Council from American Society On Aging to RainbowVision Santa Fe is extremely exciting for me.

With LAIN members arriving from all over the country to discuss LGBT Aging Issues, along with RainbowVision Vancouver Canada's Dean Malone, the air will be sure to be charged with creativity as we all look at the joys and challenges of aging together to determine where we are as a population and where we are as a community. We will be sharing information and defining the trends on as many aspects of these issues as possible.

Here's to keeping the focus on moving things forward and to keeping joyful in our lives- no matter what.

Joy Silver, President/CEO