PRESIDENT'S CORNER

   Enjoying autumn?  The cooler temperatures, the falling leaves, better sleeping, and....I just received two new jigsaw puzzles, a sure sign of the cold weather to come, not to mention that stack of books waiting to be enjoyed.  Here at OLLI in Morgantown and Charleston, classes are under way, and as puzzled folks recovering from summer, I hope you have found several places where you own pieces fit perfectly and that you are learning new and rewarding topics that will make a whole new picture come into focus for you.

Angela and I (with spouses and little Jack) will be driving to Charlotte, NC, to the annual Osher Conference on October 12 to learn all we can about how other OLLIs function, to talk with experts, and to bring back a bouquet of ideas to hep us grow in West Virginia.  Well be sharing those ideas with you soon.

I've been sharing a few words of wisdom from a little book I bought at the Shaw Festival Shoppe:  Wisdom for Elders by Kathryn and Ross Petras.  Here are a few more to lighten your weekend:

Age doesn't matter unless you're a cheese. (Actress Billie Burke)

The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow.  In that lies hope. (Architect Frank Lloyd-Wright)

Carl Jung said that part of our struggle on earth is to recognize the royalty in ourselves.  I think when we do, we can also recognize the royalty of others.  That is the secret of "love thy neighbor as thyself."  We are all born of royalty, in a gold box, even a ragman's son.  Within us is a tiny seed of godliness- the spriit of God, the Shechinah - and throughout our life we must learn to nourish it.  (Actor Kirk Douglas)

Isn't growing older grand?  Have a royal day!