Pines Village Summer Newsletter

8/4/2019 Pines Village Summer Newsletter

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S u m m e r t i m e C e l e b r a

t i o n s

W i s h Y o u

Were H e r e !

- T r i p s t o t h e b e a c h - N e v e r h a v i n g t o m o w o r pu l l w e e d s a g a i n - N o h o u s e w o r k - W i n e r y t o u r a

n d d a y t r i p s - M o n t h t o m o n t h l e a s e w i t h u t i l i t i e s i n c l u d e d - P i c n i c s i n t h e pa r k - I c e - c o l d l e m o n a d e

- N o n e e d t o c l e a n t h e g u t t e r s - C a r e f r e e d a y s - I c e c r e a m s o c i a l s & pi c n i c s i n t h e pa- M u s i c , M u s i c , M u s i c - T e n d t o f l o w e r s i n t h e g a r d e n - M o v e t o P i n e s V i l l a g e A pa r t m e n t s

S o m a n y t h i n g s t o d o . . .…



Joy is Judy Bornsein’s avorie word.

And as ar as joy is concerned, i’s clear she gives

as good as she ges.

Judy describes hersel as almos

75 going on seven, “because I have so much un in

lie. I’s like I’m a recess all he ime.”

Te Meridian Woods residen is up a our-hiry

each morning o enjoy he quie promise o a new

day, ready o bound enhusiasically rom one aciviy

o anoher.

Her primary passion is singing. “I dearly love

o sing,” she says. “I would raher sing han ea – and

I love o ea.” She urned o hospice singing ollowing

he deah o one o her daughers.

Judy is a voluneer member o he Visiing

Nurse Associaion’s hospice choir. “I know ha

music can oen soohe people when he spoken

word canno,” she says. In addiion o singing,

Judy is acive a he Valpo Mehodis Church

where she gives her ime and alens in 11

minisries or groups.

She draws and pains in an ar class oered

hrough Pines Village each week a he Campbell

Sree Caé. She could never draw a sraigh line

wih a ruler, and is amazed o have masered

shadow and perspecive hrough pencil draw-

ings, waercolors, acrylics and oil painings. In

her ‘ree ime’ she walks, rides her bike, reads,

knis, and relaxes wih amily and riends.

She is so busy, in ac, ha she doesn’ have ime

o wrie he wo books she has sared – including

one iled Joy in he Journey. Tose will have o wai

unil her “sedenary years,” she says wih a delighed

laugh.

“Atiude is everyhing,” Judy says. “I love being

old.”

While visiing her daugher and son-in-law

in 2007, she surprised even hersel by making a

down paymen on an unbuil lo in Meridian Woods.

Since she had lived in Valpo in he mid-o-lae ‘60’s,

she learned abou Pines Village and is excellen

repuaion in senior living opions and services.

She moved six monhs laer, wih he saisacion

o knowing ha she’d never again have o worry

abou mainenance in her Meridian Woods home.

Judy exchanges abou a dozen emails a day w ih riends

and amily. She’d like o kni and read more, bu hose, like

her wriing, will have o wai. “I have a V,” she says. “And

all I do is dus i. I don’ have ime o wach i!”

“My lie a Meridian Woods is magical,” she says.

“We moved here as srangers, became riends and now

are amily,” “o have neighbors who are riends is a gi

ha I never ake or graned.”

For Judy, lie is one endless opporuniy.

“You can see he glass as hal empy or hal ull.

In my case, I see he glass and I smile a he possibiliies,”

she says. “My glass is overowing wih he joy o being

conen.”

“As we age, he bes gi we can give our children

and grandchildren is he peace, joy, and conenmen

wih which we live our own lives,” she concludes.

Judy Bornstein Resident Spotlight

wice a week, Pines Village residens ge a litle exra rea

wih dinner.

Live piano music. And i’s no jus any music. Voluneer Sharon

Cosas presens avories rom he 1920s o he ‘40s. Te sandards,

she says.

“I don’ have a hisory wih hese songs, I jus like hem,” Sharon

says. “Bu he residens acually have connecions wih hem. Ta’s

wha nea or me, o see ha hese songs are so meaningul or hem.

“Tese people have all lived hrough he Grea Depression. All

he posiive music ha came ou o he Depression is amazing. When

you’d hink hey’d be singing gloom and doom, hey’re singing “Blue

skies, smiling a me, nohing bu blue skies do I see” or “Oh, we ain’

go a barrel o money, maybe we’re ragged and unny, bu we’ll ravel

along, singin’ a song--side by side.” I enjoy being a par o ha.”

And ha’s Sharon’s litle secre: as much as she loves her music,

i’s no her only gig a Pines Village. As wih mos voluneering,

Sharon says she gains even more rom he experience han she pus

in. Te piano is really jus a cover -- an “in” – o creae a connecion

and ge o know he residens.

“I’ve me so many grea people,” Sharon says, her ace shining as

she describes her visis. “Tey look orward o i, and I’d beter no b e

a no-show wihou a good reason!”

Te idea o play dinner music came o Sharon during he opening

recepion or Pines Village’s milesone 2010 renovaion. She noiced

he piano being played in he lobby was o good qualiy and porable.

A long-ime pianis, she had recenly sared jazz piano lessons wih a

eacher in Chicago and hough she could conribue o Pines Village

by sharing her new alens.

And she hough righ.

She loves playing and residens ge o hear songs hey

have heard or years. “For me i was jus a perec f,”

Sharon recalls ears on he ace o residen Irene M

her rendiion o he World War II-era avorie “I’ll Be

For Irene and her husband Ar, i had been “heir son

“I’d have o say ha’s he highligh – learning o pl

he residens reques, and hearing why his music is sp

Music runs in Sharon’s amily. Her maernal grand

played he mandolin, and she has ond recollecions o

hey played ogeher. Her moher – a wha Sharon ca

82” – sill plays cello w ih he LaPore Symphony Orc

And a home, in addiion o Sharon’s own playing

Hayley sings, wries music, plays piano and plays guia

sons also play guiar, as does husband Jon during ime

his duies as he ciy ’s mayor.

“We have a very noisy house,” Sharon concedes. A

ever ges oo noisy, she knows she now has a home aw

home a Pines Village.

“Te riendships, he people I’ve me here,” she sa

are jus wonderul.”

To read the Judy’s and Sharon’sstory in their entirety, please go towww.PinesVillage.org

Meet Sharon! Volunteer Spotlight

“ I ’ v e m s o m a n y g p e o p l e ,

S h a r o n s



Pines Village Retirement Communities

3303 Pines Village Circle

Valparaiso, Indiana 46383

Experience Pines VillageReiremen Communiies no-

or-prof dierence frs-hand

where we pu people beoreprofs. Qualiy, no earnings,s how we measure our success.

Sop by or a cool drink,alk o he residens, mee

our sa and relax inhe summer breeze.

Call Kahy Sheely

anyime a 219.465.9918 or email us a

[email protected].

Mark your calendar:

Sunday, June 5,6 diferent seating times beginning at 11:00 am

Celebrae Family & Friends Brunch. Gaher your amily & riends or his special brunch

Saturday, September 17 Swinging Sounds Supper Club6:00 – 10:00 pm, Porter County Expo Center Ciylighs eauring vocalis Beccy SchneiderTe rebirh o he supper club, - cockail hour,

delicious ood, dancing and enerainmen.Reserve now by calling Amy Page a 219.465.1591

Please visit us at www.PinesVillage.org for

more detailed information and event updates.

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