Living it Up in Retirement, New Life

As many of you must know by now, I'm retired, and I'm having great fun. For the very first time in my life I'm enjoying "school." I'm studying in two different places, Matan and the senior citizens program in Ofra.

One of the extra enjoyable "bonuses" in the Ofra program is our interaction with the students. We study in the girls high school. I like to say that we're a three generation family in the school, since two of my daughters are graduates, I have granddaughters studying there and now, so am I.

Today we heard a presentation by girls studying graphic arts about how they designed the logo for our program.

It has an "eye-catching" wise owl look, which really grabs attention and honors our wisdom. The large Hebrew writing says:

מועד ג
moed gimel (3)
"third chance*"

Followed by:

כיתת וותיקים
kitat vattikim
senior citizens class

The girls chose the gold color for the phrase "golden age," which as you know is one of the euphemisms for the elderly.

We had a wonderful time looking at the graphics exhibit about the special programs in the high school of which ours is one.

*moed is a testing time, and usually there are two, moed alef (1) and moed bet (2.) A euphemism for post-retirement is the "third" stage of life, which is alluded to in the logo's moed gimel.

new look for A7

Arutz 7 has a new look. Actually, I wasn't surprised, since I had gotten a request for a new picture, though my info and archives aren't included--at least not yet.

They now feature two more blogs, besides Michael Freund's. Tzvi Fishman has debuted as a blogger with Something's Fishy. It's a brilliant title and suits him to a Tzvi!

I could use a makeover myself, not the blogs which I'm very happy with.

• Thank You ~ Sarah ~
• and Thank You Akiva!
• and Bagel Blogger for the extra graphics

I don't mind it when people consider me old enough to deserve a seat, but I could probably do better with less of me.

29 and going strong, bli eyin haraa!

Last night, we in Shiloh celebrated our 29th Anniversary of the return of Jewish Life to the Ancient Capital of the Jewish Nation!

There were two parts to the celebration. One was exhibit of the some of the various and varied Shiloh artisans. Pictured here is Gretta, who has been our premier art teacher since arriving in Shiloh. In addition, there were ceramics, weaving, woodwork, silk screen, graphics and more.

And then there was the party, which was attended by the young and young at heart. That's Shiloh.