when they were called in from playing outside as children. These active older adults are engaging in playful and creative physical activities to stimulate tYour body is filled with stories, waiting to be told. The older you get, the more it's likely to “talk” to you. Perhaps it's trying to get your attention so you can learn the emotional and spiritual wisdom that is tucked inside your muscles and corpuscles.

Take a lesson from a group of students age fifty and older in a class I teach on creative writing and living, called Writing Your Own Permission Slip. The class members are playing catch with a colorful ball to lively music. As they toss the ball they say their names, first in a normal voice, then in playful ways, such as in the tone of voice used by their parents when they were called in from playing outside as children. These active older adults are engaging in playful and creative physical activities to stimulate th

you can learn the emotional and spiritual wisdom that is tucked inside your muscles and corpuscles.

Take a lesson from a group of students age fifty and older in a class I teach on creative writing and living, called Writing Your Own Permission Slip. The class members are playing catch with a colorful ball to lively music. As they toss the ball they say their names, first in a normal voice, then in playful ways, such as in the tone of voice used by their parents when they were called in from playing outside as children. These active older adults are engaging in playful and creative physical activities to stimulate t

older in a class I teach on creative writing and living, called Writing Your Own Permission Slip. The class members are playing catch with a colorful ball to lively music. As they toss the ball they say their names, first in a normal voice, then in playful ways, such as in the tone of voice used by their parents when they were called in from playing outside as children. These active older adults are engaging in playful and creative physical activities to stimulate tto lively music. As they toss the ball they say their names, first in a normal voice, then in playful ways, such as in the tone of voice used by their parents when they were called in from playing outside as children. These active older adults are engaging in playful and creative physical activities to stimulate t when they were called in from playing outside as children. These active older adults are engaging in playful and creative physical activities to stimulate their body awareness, memory, and creativity. The activities are warm-ups for writing exercises that will help them rediscover and redefine themselves.

Ray, age seventy, a thin, stiff-bodied, retired engineer with a severe hearing loss, signed up for the class seeking relief from depression. He was feeling overwhelmed and defeated in the face of his wife’s Alzheimer’s. Sara, a short, talkative, mid-fifties woman with an angelic face had spent a year in intense grieving after nursing her husband through the dying process. She wanted to find a way to move on. Lola, eighty-eight, was a bright-faced, glamorously dressed elf