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March 2025

About Senior Solutions
03/28/2025

Building a Bridge With Journey House, A Home Base for Former Foster Youth
03/28/2025

Come for the Knitting, Stay for the Conversation... and the Cookies
03/28/2025

Creating Safe and Smart Spaces with Home Technology
03/28/2025

Finding Joy in My Role on The Pasadena Village Board
03/28/2025

I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!
03/28/2025

Managing Anxiety
03/28/2025

Message from Our President: Keeping Pasadena Village Strong Together
03/28/2025

My Favorite Easter Gift
03/28/2025

The Hidden History of Black Women in WWII
03/28/2025

Urinary Tract Infection – Watch Out!
03/28/2025

Volunteer Coordinator and Blade-Runner
03/28/2025

Continuing Commitment to Combating Racism
03/26/2025

Status - March 20, 2025
03/20/2025

Goodbye and Keep Cold by Robert Frost
03/13/2025

What The Living Do by Marie Howe
03/13/2025

Racism is Not Genetic
03/11/2025

Bill Gould, The First
03/07/2025

THIS IS A CHAPTER, NOT MY WHOLE STORY
03/07/2025

Dramatic Flair: Villagers Share their Digital Art
03/03/2025

Empowering Senior LGBTQ+ Caregivers
03/03/2025

A Life Never Anticipated
03/02/2025

Eaton Fire Changes Life
03/02/2025

February 2025

Commemorating Black History Month 2025
02/28/2025

Transportation at the Pasadena Village
02/28/2025

A Look at Proposition 19
02/27/2025

Behind the Scenes: Understanding the Pasadena Village Board and Its Role
02/27/2025

Beyond and Within the Village: The Power of One
02/27/2025

Celebrating Black Voices
02/27/2025

Creatively Supporting Our Village Community
02/27/2025

Decluttering: More Than The Name Implies
02/27/2025

Hidden Gems of Forest Lawn Museum
02/27/2025

LA River Walk
02/27/2025

Message from the President
02/27/2025

Phoenix Rising
02/27/2025

1619 Conversations with West African Art
02/25/2025

The Party Line
02/24/2025

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
02/17/2025

Dreams by Langston Hughes
02/17/2025

Haiku - Four by Fritzie
02/17/2025

Haikus - Nine by Virginia
02/17/2025

Wind and Fire
02/17/2025

Partnerships Amplify Relief Efforts
02/07/2025

Another Community Giving Back
02/05/2025

Diary of Disaster Response
02/05/2025

Eaton Fire: A Community United in Loss and Recovery
02/05/2025

Healing Powers of Creative Energy
02/05/2025

Living the Mission
02/05/2025

Message from the President: Honoring Black History Month
02/05/2025

Surviving and Thriving: Elder Health Considerations After the Fires
02/05/2025

Treasure Hunting in The Ashes
02/05/2025

Villager's Stories
02/05/2025

A Beginning of Healing
02/03/2025

Hectic Evacuation From Eaton Canyon Fire
02/02/2025

Hurricanes and Fires are Different Monsters
02/02/2025

January 2025

Message from the President

By Richard Myers
Posted: 10/29/2024
Tags: presidents message, dick myers, newsletter november 2024

The month of November is identified with Thanksgiving. In that spirit, I am sharing this message with all of you . . . our Villagers, supporters and friends.

Gratitude is a quality that happy people share. Studies have shown that the two qualities that happy people all seem to have in common are gratitude and agency. Pasadena Village clearly provides Villagers with agency in their lives because we have so many opportunities for our members to participate in the world.

Gratitude, however, is a little different quality. We do provide opportunities to express our thanks, but we can always express it better. Having gratitude is beneficial to the person experiencing it but, it is also helpful to the person who inspires gratitude when they learn that they know you feel it. As Villagers, I think we can do more to communicate our gratitude.

The Village is a community driven and led by our members. It is their efforts and contributions that make everything work that we should be grateful for, like:

- Board Directors who commit time out of their lives to serve on our board and help set priorities and oversee the activities of our community. Some of our Board Directors are not members but are part of the larger community who take time out of their busy working lives to help create our community as a Village.

- Villagers who accept the responsibility of leading committees or teams that deal with various issues and activities for our community.

- Villagers who serve on committees and teams to do the actual work required.

- Villagers who organize small group gatherings to pursue interests that they share with other Villagers.

- Villagers, as well as supporters and friends who are not members, volunteer time to provide other services such as volunteering to drive or help with event details.

- Villagers who help their neighbors in small ways such as picking up packages, gardening and other acts of caring.

These are just a few of the many things that we should be grateful for. All of these people working together make the Village what it is and without their efforts we would not be the thriving community that we are.

Look around you and see who the people are who are doing these things and let them know that you appreciate their “lagniappe”... their doing a “little bit more.” This small step will make the world a better place.

I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving and end this year healthy, happy and hopeful.

Sincerely,

Dick Myers

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