Judith Yamada attended PSU's Regional Livability Summit's session: "Healthy Eating, Active Living, Community Development and Affordable Housing." What she got from it ingredients was for a "twenty minute community."
As those who've been to Coffee and Conversation can attest, the Geezer Gallery is an arts organization that has a whimsical name and a serious mission. They want to showcase "talented senior artists as a means of partially supporting the development of local senior artistic talent, and the creation and implementation of programs of art and programs of art therapy aimed at the local senior community of the greater Portland area."
Lenore Bijan was in her early 70s when she began taking yoga classes and grew interested in exercise for the aging human body. Read Boom, Boomers and Beyond.
"On an afternoon in November two-year-old Sienna Gabriella Johnson participated in an important part of The Geezer Gallery mission. Painter/teacher Madeline had something valuable that she wanted to share with little Sienna."