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At Sixes and Sevens we reveal the usually unnoticed details of aging: achievement, wit, joy, wisdom, beauty, assurance, experience, pleasure, confidence, and mature awareness
 
 
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May 2015 Newsletter

Dear Friends,

Welcome to our monthly Newsletter and greetings from Orleans, Massachusetts the home of At Sixes and Sevens Multimedia, Inc. 

Sadly, At Sixes and Sevens, Inc. gives tribute to our Chairman of the Board, Warren B. Sillcocks, who died suddenly on May 2, 2015.  He was a true gentleman who lived a good and generous life of service to his family and his community.  Mr. Sillcocks served on numerous non-profit boards and church committees.  Besides his philanthropic interests, Warren enjoyed reading, his garden, and travel.  He leaves all of us At Sixes and Sevens, Inc. with heavy hearts but also with sincere gratitude for his work advancing our mandate and mission.

                                      Cures for Mind and Body

"Goodness" is at once a general term and a specific reference to something we recognize in others or in particular settings.  When people talk about goodness they are usually thinking of community service but it is just as much about empathy and how we treat each other.

"Goodness" is a model for behavior and action.  It attempts to connect people to one another and to a program or project.  For example, goodness can be modeled through the arts by engaging people in the process of creativity.  Goodness can also guide us to integrate technology into our lives in more rewarding ways.

"Goodness" entails a commitment to bring integrity and kindness to our relationships and our work settings.  It embraces open dialogue and it creates opportunities for discourse through listening, warmth, and approach-ability in diverse contexts. 
  
 

Being Ourselves
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A new robust period of adult life has emerged. It has been created by a rapidly increasing demographic of people aged sixty to eighty years old. They have both resources and time. They are active and experienced.  They are healthy and expectant of a long, interesting life.  They seek connection and enrichment, in traditional and novel ways.

At Sixes and Sevens, Inc. we want to make it easier to find ideas and information about and of interest to this community.  We seek to encourage people's productivity by offering ways to interact with the pace of change in this new life stage. We foster the inspiration of a vibrant peer group that enhances peoples' own active lifestyle.

Most importantly, At Sixes and Sevens, Inc. provides a new learning environment based on communication and technology.  We have a multimedia approach that includes an interactive website,  a wide range of topic offerings, videos, blogs, podcasts, a radio program and interviews exclusively with people between the ages of sixty and eighty.

Being at sixes and sevens isn't just an extension of middle age.  These years present new waves of opportunity for contribution to society.  We must get ready for the creativity and impact of this large group of new activists.  Society isn't exactly ready now!  So let's get started.

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About 1 in 7 people in the United States are aged 65+.

About 45% of women aged 75 live alone.

"A truth about the uses of time in (life) is that the occasion for turning fortune your way is unlikely to occur on schedule".
                                                    Machiavelli
Enjoying Life


Sincerely,

Margaret Rappaport, Executive Director
At Sixes and Sevens Multimedia, Inc.