• undertaking personal projects that can energize and enrich our lives’ final phases;
• shaping those projects to fit our senior capabilities and constraints.

This month I had a welcome opportunity to put both sides into practice: directing a performance of Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by our retirement community’s Play Readers.

I’d like to devote this year’s final blog post to sharing journal notes from this senior project. These are solely my own impressions. They don’t attempt to represent the opinions of other Play Readers members or the group as a whole. Although all personnel references are positive, I’ve kept them anonymous to respect everyone’s privacy.