One thing I’ve learned about life stages: you can understand the ones you’ve already been through. Sort of. But the ones that lie ahead of you, you can only imagine. Stories other people tell us about their experiences are one of the best ways to imagine ourselves into empathy and, maybe, brilliant acts.
A blog is a great place to share those stories.
Some of what goes on in our personal and work lives just doesn't fit into the usual categories--reports, analyses, news stories, instructional materials. It comes from the place where who we are intersects with what we do.
A blog is a great place to explore the intersections.
Sometimes, the stories around us fill us with despair. A blog is a great place to mark and honor the sadness--or to write new, happier endings.
More mundanely, this blog was created because it’s part of our communications plan to develop new ways to connect members of the Milwaukee Aging Consortium around common issues in the work we do, the people we care about and for.
Finally, in learning about this field—a new one for me, a career change--I’m turning up fascinating information, ideas, people, and programs that I want to share.
Here's a ferinstance: Milwaukee's Danceworks Gallery is opening a mixed media exhibition Walking in Someone Else's Shoes starting Friday, January 19, from 6 - 9. The exhibit is "envisioned stories and works (that) celebrate the lives of Milwaukee elders and youth. . ." It's part of the ongoing Intergenerational Multi-Arts Project (IMAP), and it will continue through April 11. The opening also takes place during the Third Ward's Gallery Night And Day.
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
--Pablo Picasso
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