Sundays: 12 noon (CT) in-person and online
Presenters: Elly Contreras, Joan Fletcher and Ann Godshall Service Associate: Tim Boeve This service will introduce a new nonprofit initiative at Lakeside called “Lakeside Memory Neighborhood” which seeks to bring compassionate culturally responsive dementia care for all those facing this affliction in our neighborhoods. The three-part presentation spearheaded by LCUUF member, Elly Contreras, along with … Continue reading “Lakeside Memory Neighborhood”
Presenter: Elly Conreras Service Associate: Barley Donahue Breaking the Silence about Dementia, Elly Contreras will share a number of factors about dementia, how we can determine our risk factors and how to prevent or slow down dementia. Through her organization “Lakeside DayBreak Dementia Support” the aim is to make Lakeside a Dementia Inclusive community and … Continue reading “Breaking the Silence About Dementia”
Presenter: Rev. Gary Kowalski Service Associate: Eric Luria It’s a truism that everyone knows they are going to die, but no one really believes it. This morning our guest speaker Reverend Gary Kowalski suggests that embracing mortality can be a doorway to richer and more abundant living. Gary is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School … Continue reading “Your Year To Live”
Presenters: Loretta Downs, Lorna Dean Service Associate: Jane Castleman Living fully means considering all along the way, how we are living and what we can leave behind as our legacy whether as actions, values, relationships, and/or tangibles. Leaving a legacy is like tossing a rock into a pond. There is an initial splash followed by … Continue reading This is Your Life, Give it a Good Ending
Susie Wagner, long-time member, will speak to us about aging without getting old. She will give us the benefit of her 86 years of wisdom and experience and challenge us to see ourselves in a new light. The Service Leader will be Kathy Koches.
Humankind has had a rapid and destructive impact on our planet. How might we hope to turn that around and thus become good ancestors? Fred Harland will give the talk and Mardele Harland will be the Service Leader.
As a UU Humanist who just turned 80, Bob Koches will reflect on aging and his search for spirituality. Kathleen Pharis is the Service Leader.
A few years ago, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a column in which he noted the difference between what he called ‘résumé virtues’ and ‘eulogy virtues’, with résumé virtues being “the skills that you bring to the marketplace, while eulogy virtues are ‘the ones that are talked about at your funeral.’ This concept, … Continue reading Résumé and Eulogy Virtues
Rev. Matt Alspaugh, PresenterTed Fahy, Service Associate Surgeon Atul Gawande is the writer of the book “Being Mortal.” He learned, he says, too late in his career as a physician, that the central question for his patients was “What Does a Good Day Look Like?” Not questions about fighting, or fixing, or when to give … Continue reading “What Does a Good Day Look Like?”
