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From 1776: America s Journey to Freedom We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. 1778: Patrick Henry to George Rogers Clark I send you herewith some Copies of the Act of Government & Bill of Rights, together with the French Alliance. These will serve to show our new friends; the Ground upon which they are to stand, & the Support to be expected from their Countrymen of France. Equal Liberty & Happiness are the objects, to a participation of which we invite them. Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address, 1801 A rising nation spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power, and forget right, advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of the mortal eye. When I contemplate these transcendent objects, & see the honor the happiness, & the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue & the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation, & humble myself before the magnitude of the undertaking. The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Address, 1865 With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us drive to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphans to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. The 19th Amendment, 1920 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Health Corner About 21 percent of adults in the U.S. always make it to the gym or exercise studio. Why them and not everyone? Steady exercisers have some habits in common. According to studies by Dr. Navin Kaushal of the Montreal Heart Institute, steady exercisers have a regular exercise schedule that never varies. They don't debate whether they have the time that day, because exercise is just part of the day. However, the most active people aren't rigid about their routines. While they always exercise, they are flexible on time. If they are 20 minutes late to the gym and can't make an exercise class, they will get in the remaining minutes doing something else. It still counts. In fact, regular exercisers count all sorts of activity as exercise. A family hike can count as exercise just as much as an hour of weight training, if the situation presents itself. Finally, it helps to have visual cues for exercise, Kaushal found in a 2017 study. A runner might have his running clothes laid out and ready to go. A walker might have the walking stick ready at the door. Be sure to check in with your Personal Expressions Team to see what exercise classes your Community provides.
Model A Car Show Join us for 30 s Music w/ Paul and his Band Saturday, July 15 from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM (DPH Parking Lot) Welcome AL/ MC Residents! Dress up for 30 s Theme!! Celebrate America s Birthday Trip to Downtown Pleasant Hill to watch 4th of July Independence Day Parade Depart @ 9:00 AM 4 th July BBQ @ 11:30 AM Let Freedom Ring, Bell Ringing Ceremony @ 3:00 PM Ice Cream Social (LR) Welcome AL/ MC Residents! You are Invited! Spirit of Dixie Land Jazz Band Saturday, July 1 9:30 Walking Club w/ Bea (L) 10:00 Scenic Ride: Lake Merritt (L) 10:30 Liv2bhealthy Exercise Class (LR) 10:30 Gorgeous Nails (CR) Dakim (Mail Box) 1:30 Ice Crème Sundae (LR) 3:30 Bingo (CR) 3:30 Word Game (LR) Documentary Hr (CR) Sunday, July 2 9:00 Church Shuttles w/ Rick (L) 10:30 Daily Update, Millennial Moments (CR) 1:00 Massage & Music (CR) 2:30 Sunday Matinee (LR) 3:00-4:30 Bingo (CR) 3:00 Scenic Ride: Clayton (L) Resident Forum Food Forum Tuesday, July 11 @ 1:30 PM (CR) Wednesday, July 5 from 5:30 PM-7:30 PM (CR Courtyard) Enjoy an evening of Live Music & Refreshments with Friends & Loved Ones! Activity Forum Wednesday, July 19 @ 1:00 PM (CR)
Monday, July 3 Bank Hrs (FD) 10:30 Daily Update, All about 4 th of July (CR) 10:30 One on One Computer w/ Jack (LR) 3:30 Happy Hour w/ Paul, Piano (LR) Friday, July 7 10:00-11:30 Bingo (CR) 10:30 Coffee & Cookies Social (LR) 1:00 American History w/ John Shumway (CR) 1:00 Starbucks Drive thru Trip (L) 3:30 Happy Hour w/ Sandra, Piano (LR) Tuesday, July 4 9:00 4 th of July Parade (LR) Off to Independence Day Parade Downtown Pleasant Hill (L) 1:30 Bingo (CR) 3:00 Let Freedom Ring (LR) Ice Cream Social Sing Along Movie TBA (CR) Wednesday, July 5 9:30 Morning Stretch (Courtyard) 10:00 Summer Vendor Fair (LR) 10:30 Yoga w/ Phi (CR) 11:30 Lunch Outing, Mediterranean (L) 3:30 Word Game (CR) 5:30-7:30 Summer Concert Series Dixie Land Jazz Band (CR Courtyard) Thursday, July 6 10:30 Dakim (Mail Box) 10:30 Trip to the Library (L) 1:00 Documentary Hour: History of US (LR) 3:30 Arts & Craft (CR) Saturday, July 8 10:00 Scenic Ride, Oakland Arena (L) 10:30 Liv2bhealthy Exercise Class (LR) 10:30 Gorgeous Nails (Cafe) Dakim (Mail Box) 1:00 Painting Social (CR) 1:00 Bowling (LR) 3:30 Word Game (LR) 3:30 Bingo (CR) Documentary Hr (CR) Sunday, July 9 9:00 Church Shuttles w/ Rick (L) 10:30 Daily Update, Millennial Moments(CR) 1;00 Massage & Music (CR) 2:30 Sunday Matinee (LR) 3:00-4:30 Bingo (CR) 3:00 Scenic Ride: Danville (L) Best of the Best Award Winner Imee Segarra Medication Technician Safety Star Award Winner Erma Engle Personal Caregiver Congratulations!
Monday, July 10 9:30 Balance Fitness w/ Sarah (BB) Bank Hrs (FD) 10:30 Daily Update, What does Freedom mean to you? (CR) 2:00 Pet visit w/ Orlena (CR) 3:30 Happy Hr w/ Jack, Piano (LR) Friday, July 14 10:00-11:30 Bingo (CR) 10:30 Coffee & Bagel Social (LR) 1:00 American History w/ John Shumway (CR) 1:00 Krispy creme Drive Thru trip (L) :30 Happy Hour w/ Todd, Piano (LR) Tuesday, July 11 10:30 Dakim (Mail Box) 1:30 Resident Forum (CR) 2:30 Smoothie Social (LR) 3:15 Brain Fitness w/ Kit (CR) 3:30 Knitting (LR) 3:30 Transitions Grp w/ Vicki (PDR) Movie TBA (CR) Saturday, July 15 10:00-1:00 Model A Car Show (Parking lot) 30's Music w/ Paul Fontes Band Join us Outdoor Music, fun and food w/ Yulia and Tony! 3:30 Bingo (CR) 3:30 Word Game (LR) Documentary Hr (CR) Wednesday, July 12 9:30 Morning Stretch (LR) 10:30 Daily Update, Bring a Poetry (LR) 3:30 Resident Birthday Celebration; AL/ MC (LR) Sunday, July 16 9:00 Church Shuttles w/ Rick (L) 10:30 Daily Update, Millennial Moments (CR) 11:30 Sunday Brunch (DR) 1:00 Massage & Music (CR) 2:30 Sunday Matinee (LR) 3:00-4:30 Bingo (CR) 3:00 Scenic Ride: Lafayette (L) Thursday, July 13 10:30 Dakim (Mail Box) 10:00 Flower Arrangement (CR) 1:00 Movie Outing TBA (L) 2:30 Root Beer Floats w/ Mike & Diane (Cafe) 3:30 Book Club (PDR) Model A Car Show Live Music & fun w/ your friends & Family on Saturday, July 15 from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM (DPH Parking Lot)
Monday, July 17 9:30 Balance Fitness w/ Sarah (BB) Bank Hrs (FD) 10:30 Daily Update (CR) This Day in History of Disney 10:30 One on One Computer w/ Jack (LR) 2:00 Pet visit w/ Orlena (CR) 3:30 Happy Hour w/ Paul, Piano (LR) Wear Disney Apparel Day Friday, July 21 10:00-11:30 Bingo (CR) 11:00 Trip to Pleasant Hill Senior Center for Lunch (L) 1:00 American History w/ John Shumway (CR) 3:30 Happy Hour w/ Jack, Piano (LR) Tuesday, July 18 10:00 ARF Pet Visit (LR) 10:30 Dakim (Mail Box) 2:30 Milk Shake Social (LR) 3:15 Brain Fitness w/ Kit (CR) Knitting (LR) Movie TBA (CR) Wednesday, July 19 9:30 Morning Stretch (Courtyard) 10:00 Trip to Golden Gate Fields (L) 10:30 Yoga w/ Phi (CR) 1:00 Activities Forum (CR) 3:30 New Resident Housewarming AL/MC w/ Buck & Band (LR) Thursday, July 20 10:30 Dakim (Mail Box) 12:00 Captain s Lunch w/ Tracey (PDR) 2:00 Boys Team Charity of Walnut Creek Moon Landing Day! Pet Therapy, Games/ Social & More (CR/ LR) Water Melon Eating Contest Saturday, July 22 10:00 Mad Hatter Tea at Senior Center (L) 10:30 Liv2bhealthy Exercise Class (LR) 10:30 Dakim (Mail Box) 1:00 Performance by Silver Wings (LR) 3:30 Bingo (CR) 3:30 Word Game (LR) Documentary Hr (CR) Sunday, July 23 9:00 Church Shuttles w/ Rick (L) 10:30 Daily Update, Millennial Moments(CR) 1:00 Massage & Music (CR) 2:30 Sunday Matinee (LR) 3:00-4:30 Bingo (CR) 3:00 Scenic Ride: Orinda (L) Associate Birthdays Malika Griffith, 7/3 Cassandra Santos, 7/6 Julie Medina, 7/7 Jasmin Duarte, 7/12 Rosario Caragay, 7/21 Krasi Stefanova, 7/25 Tony Stankoff, 7/25 Jennea Nelson, 7/30
Monday, July 24 9:30 Balance Fitness w/ Sarah (BB) Bank Hrs (FD) 10:30 Daily Update, July in History (CR) 2:00 Pet visit w/ Orlena (CR) 3:30 Happy Hour w/ Jack, Piano (LR) Friday, July 28 10:00-11:30 Bingo (CR) 10:30 Lemonade & Cookie Social (LR) 1:00 American History w/ John Shumway (CR) 1:00 Trip to the Library (L) 3:30 Happy Hour w/ Sandra, Piano (LR) Tuesday, July 25 10:30 Dakim (Mail Box) 2:30 Meet w/ International students (CR/ LR) Join us for Presentations/ Games/Social Inter-Cultural/Inter Generational Opportunity! Movie TBA (CR) Saturday, July 29 10:00 Scenic Ride: AT & T Park (L) 10:30 Liv2bhealthy Exercise Class (LR) 10:30 Gorgeous Nails (CR) Dakim (Mail Box) 12:00 McDonald Drive thru for Lunch Trip (L) 1:00 Weights/ BP w/ Janilyn (CR) 3:30 Bingo (CR) 3:30 Word Game (LR) Documentary Hr (CR) Wednesday, July 26 9:30 Morning Stretch (LR) 10:30 Brain Fitness w/ Kit (CR) 2:30 Beautify walker/ Wheelchair (CR) 3:30 Foot Reflexology w/ Lisa (CR) 3:45 Trivia (LR) Sunday, July 30 9:00 Church Shuttles w/ Rick (L) 10:30 Daily Update, Chicken Soup Stories (CR) 1:00 Music & Massage (CR) 2:30 Sunday Matinee (LR) 3:00-4:30 Bingo (CR) 3:00 Scenic Ride: Country Club Road (L) Resident Birthdays Thursday, July 27 10:30 Dakim (Mail Box) 10:00 Flower Arrangement (CR) 2:30 Ice Cream Social (LR) 3:30 Documentary Hr : History of US (LR) 3:30 Carlton Friendship Club Dinner (CR) Marilyn Probst, 7/5 Peter Colicchia, 7/7 Jim Kluesener, 7/7 Gene Pitman, 7/7 Jo Tombari, 7/17 Kevin Schwan, 7/24 Henriet Jones, 7/27 Mel Dotts, 7/30
Sunday, July 31 Bank Hrs (FD) 10:30 Daily Update, Mind over Matter (CR) 2:00 Pet visit w/ Orlena (CR) 3:30 Happy Hour w/ Paul, Piano (LR) Associate Profile: Alejandra Granados Personal Caregiver Alejandra, One of our Personal Caregivers was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. She came to US when she was two months old. When in school she was given certificate for being the Best of The Best in the District. She enjoys playing trumpet, hiking and exploring! She likes to go for a walk on a beach; she loves open ocean and the warmth of the sun. She is married and have two beautiful children and her family is the world to her that gives her energy and motivation to keep going! She loves to smile and being happy and she feels that being mad/ sad doesn t get you anywhere! Join us for a New Resident Housewarming w/ Buck Shot & Band on Wednesday, July 19 from 3:30 PM-4:30 PM (LR) Physical Fitness Liv2beHealthy Tuesday Thursday Saturday Balance Fitness Sunday Monday Morning Stretch Wednesday Brain Fitness w/ Kit Every Tuesday Dakim Brain Fitness Everyday Music & Massage Every Sunday
John Shumway s Corner Doctor Shuttle Tuesday & Thursday The American Civil War, 1861-1865, was the greatest catastrophe America ever went through. This was the most brutal war in American history. Over 3 million men fought in it. Over 750,000 died in the war! This was about 5% of the men in the total American population of 31.2 million. It is estimated that about 23% of all Southern white men died in the war. So far, we Americans have faced nothing like this again in our entire history! After the election of Abraham Lincoln as President but before he was sworn in 11 Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. The outbreak of armed hostilities in 1861 was the culmination of decades of growing sectional friction over slavery. Between 1815 and 1861 the economy of the Northern states was rapidly modernizing and diversifying. Although agriculture; mostly smaller farms that relied on free labor; remained the dominant economic sector in the North, industrialization had taken root there. Also Northerners had invested heavily in an expansive and varied transportation system that included canals, roads, steamboats, and railroads. The Union led in financial industries such as banking and insurance; and in having a large communications network that featured inexpensive, widely available newspapers, magazines, and books, along with the long range communication of the telegraph. By contrast, the Southern economy was based principally on large plantations that produced commercial crops such as cotton and that relied on slaves as the main labor source. [However, most white Southerners were, in fact, small farmers, not the Planters of Gone With The Wind fiction. Rather than investing in factories or railroads as Northerners had done, Southerners invested their money in slaves even more than in land; by 1860, 84 percent of the American capital invested in manufacturing was invested in the free states. Most Southerners were sure that their young men were far better suited to victorious battle than a gaggle of untrained Northern mechanics and small farmers. Southern men were very familiar with firearms and ready to use them to defend their Southern honor. I think it is fair for the Historian to say they had almost no clue about what was to happen to them and their quasi-feudal way of life. Thus the saddest story in our shared history began. Earliest 9:30 AM Latest 3:30 PM We serve Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Concord, Martinez 48-72 Hrs advance notification required! Shopping Shuttle Monday 10:00 AM-11:30 AM Countrywood Shopping Center Wednesday 10:00 AM-11:30 AM Downtown Pleasant Hill Church Shuttle Sunday 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Open Transportation Seven Days/ week 9:30 AM-3:00 PM Please check in @ the Front Desk 1 hr before required ride!
Why is it that as we grow older, many of us expects less and worse? Fact is: we usually get what we expect. Emotions are a strange and powerful lot. How many of us fully understand our own emotions and how they affect us both positively and negatively? How many of us are in control of how we feel? Do you get up in the morning hoping to have a better day yet leave it to chance? Do you make it happen or simply -- let -- it happen? Volumes have been written on this subject but as usual, I m going out on a limb and attempt to crunch it all into one column so you can learn how to create a great life with as little effort as possible. All I ask is that you learn a few rules and use them daily. Do You Ask But You Don t Get? First of all, do you REALLY know what you want? And are you enjoying that which you desire because even though you may not be aware of it, the thing that you truly desire on a deep emotional level is what is driving your emotions and creating the kind of energy that surrounds you. That energy, be it positive or negative, goes out from you to those around you and beyond. Positive energy is free-flowing, feels comfortable, satisfying, life-giving. Negative energy is uncomfortable, aggravating. If it feels like work, such as the exercise you resist, and you have to make it happen, your energy is probably out of alignment. Don t want to and it feels like a struggle to make it happen rather than peacefully letting it happen, your energy is probably out of alignment within you. Do you hear a buzz within you that you keep ignoring? Blame it on to a sickness, a virus, something you ate? Something going around? Probably not. Your energy may be out of whack. LISTEN TO THE BUZZ Some call it vibrational energy. Yes, we re flesh, blood and bone but we are also extensions of The Source Energy, or vibrational energy. When we get sick, our energy is out of whack, out of balance, or not-at-ease (dis-ease). So when you hear a buzz, don t ignore it. It s not normal. Since each of us come into this world as a creative genius and have access to The Power, the way you create with and utilize it tells you what kind of attention you give it. Whatever we give our attention to creates the energy we generate. You are like a wireless computer, and so you don t have to plug yourself in with some wire in order to connect to the network which is Source Energy, says Esther and Jerry Hicks, author of Ask And It Is Given. But it depends on how we align ourselves with The Source of Energy that determines how we feel. When we are full of this energy, we feel great and the world looks rosy. However, when we are approaching empty, orneriness, fitfulness, despair, depression are some of the strong emotions we feel. We are not allowing the creative energy to flow through us as freely and fully as it could. Our tank never runs out, says Hicks. When we can take the approach to life that, I m going to make the best of this. No matter where I am, I m going to make the best of it. That means that if I make the best of it, it s got to get better, and if I still keep making the best of it, it has to get even better, and then people are going to find us very nice to be with. Children will find us joyous instead of critical; others will find joy through our examples. As we all know, but have a difficult time remembering, we never teach anyone anything by pointing out what they re doing wrong and then trying to discipline them into doing something that we believe to be right. Hicks say, No one else can evaluate anyone else s emotional scale. It s an inside job. It s a personal job and nobody else can do it.