There is nothing like a new and fresh start!  The new year provides us all with the opportunity to reassess what new and exciting things we’d like to experience in 2012.  Some of you will target health and weight loss/maintenance as a goal; some of you will seek new opportunities to volunteer and some of you will embark on learning a new skill. 

Here at the Atlas Center, we are vowing to identify new and innovative approaches to serve you better!  After an overwhelming response to the 2011 Zumba class offering, we will be offering that class, again, along with an advanced Zumba Gold class in July.  Now, you will be able to dance and burn those calories at an even higher rate!

On the weekends, a “Chinese Paper Cuts” workshop, will be offered in August, and we are most excited offering “Karaoke for Seniors” on several dates from June through December. 

Stay tuned to all our wonderful offering by visiting our website, viewing our Life Enrichment Brochure and our monthly activity calendars! 

This is going to be a great year! 

In Oneness, Robin   

Greetings!  We have certainly become accustomed to celebrating “African American History Month” every February.  Many of us have seen this observance evolve from Negro History Week to Black History Month to African American History Month, and for every version, we learn more and more about the contributions of many great heroes and sheros.

We have spent years acknowledging and honoring great people like

George Washington Carver, Bessie Coleman, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Mae Jemison that we often forget about the great people that we see everyday in our neighborhoods, churches and clubs. 

When I look around the Atlas Senior Center, I see you – who have contributed so much as school teachers, postal workers, beauticians, laborers and so many other professions.  It is you that our youth have looked to as great role models and examples of how to preserve in the midst of great adversity. 

You have been an inspiration to me, especially as I watch how you have embarked on a new facet of life that allows you to grow those gifts that you have always wanted to develop!  There is something to be said about a person who has never painted a day in his or her life, but now at 60+ years of age is producing stunning artwork.

I watch as you volunteer, give back to churches and encourage those of us who still have a ways to go.

So the next time you salute those great people of history, please add your name to the list.

Blessings and Oneness,

Robin