NOTE FROM THE CEO

Resilience and Adaptation

Everyone gets to be young. Growing older is one of life’s greatest blessings — even in a pandemic. Or maybe especially in a pandemic because growing older, even with never-ending challenges, is a blessing that many aren’t fortunate enough to experience.

So how do we find our way forward when our lives have been turned upside down? We do that by adapting to and accommodating the changing times so that we can continue making a difference in the lives of others and pursuing the many passions that make our lives worth living.

In truth, resilience and adaptation are two of the most important keys to successful aging, pandemic or not. Our world, our families, our bodies, our abilities, our jobs, our everything gradually changes as we age. What doesn’t have to change is our ability to create and celebrate moments of joy.

I love this issue of Growing Bolder Magazine because it reflects many of the adjustments that people of passion are making. They’re creating old-school ways for social distanced shared experience like drive-in movies, finding companionship and purpose through our relationships with pets and wild animals, and adjusting to the rapidly changing world of exercise. These stories and so much more are all designed to help you adapt, adjust, and accommodate not just to these changing times but to those in the years ahead.

There is still a great deal of uncertainty in all of our lives. It’s impossible to know what the future holds. But again, that’s life. So, let’s all keep chasing moments of joy. Let’s all keep recognizing and appreciating the beauty in every day, even those filled with frustration. As we are fond of saying at Growing Bolder, this is not the beginning of the end. It’s the beginning of what’s next.

IN TRUTH, RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION ARE TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL AGING, PANDEMIC OR NOT.

“ Let’s all keep recognizing and appreciating the beauty in every day, even those filled with frustration.

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Volume 42

PUBLISHER Jackie Carlin EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Emily Thompson

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Ashley Heafy GRAPHIC DESIGNER Katie Styles EXECUTIVE EDITOR Doris Bloodsworth FEATURES DIRECTOR Bill Shafer PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Jill Middleton

EDITORIAL SPECIAL FEATURES George Diaz Mary Lou Janson

VIDEO + PHOTOGRAPHY Jason Morrow, Michael Nanus, Jacob Langston

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

George Diaz Nick Gandy Mary Lou Janson Del Moon Joy Perry

Leslie Poole Amy Sweezey Jonathan Taylor Bobby Wesley

GROWING BOLDER PRESS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Marc Middleton PRESIDENT Robert Thompson

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