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GETTING INVOLVED

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be
The last of life, for which the first was made.
Robert Browning

Youth is the only season for enjoyment . . .
George Borrow

Small wonder that everyone knows Robert Browning, but George Borrow is even more obscure than Antonio Salieri. We live in an age in which it has become traditional to value things associated with youth, and in so doing, to devalue almost anything related to aging. Our society now expects persons to retire when - or even before - they reach age 65. The implication is that older persons should quietly step aside, yielding to younger generations.

The population of Americans over the age of 65 now equals the teen population. By 2025, as the baby boomers gain senior status, there will be twice as many seniors as teens. As it is today, the seniors will be healthier, wealthier, better-educated, and longer-lived than any previous group.

The ability to learn new things late in life is called "opsimathy," and it's a refreshing contrast to the idea that everything is learned early. That might even suggest that education and love are wasted on the young. When one considers the fact that some 75% of human knowledge has been amassed within the last quarter century, one must question why the possessors of so much of that knowledge should be pastured, passively awaiting the grim reaper.

Why get involved in Wrinkles of Washington! (WOW)? Perhaps Governors Lowry and Locke said it best in their Proclamation of Wrinkles of Washington! Weekend during the WOW Fall Shows. They quite properly described Wrinkles of Washington! as "a group of talented and energetic seniors" who participate in "exciting and magical show[s] of music, comedy and dance." Our respective Governors went on to note that "rehearsing for a stage show is a wonderful way to rekindle a life-long fantasy of public performance, to rejuvenate through exercise and dance, and to rediscover the pleasure of singing."

So, those of you who may be the cusp,

Why not rekindle a waning, but life-long fantasy of public performance?
Why not renew your psyche and your body through the excitement of physical exercise in dance?
Why not rediscover the pleasure of wonderful music by singing again - in chorus with other senior folk, or perhaps even solo?
Why not commit to the rigor and challenge of an action-filled but joyous rehearsal schedule?
Why not become involved in creating wonderful multi-performance stage productions OF and BY seniors for your own benefit and that of local charities?

If you are 55 or over and have a latent desire to perform, please watch this site for Spring and Fall Show audition schedules. Other opportunities will be posted on this page as they may arise. If you have questions, please contact us by phone (360) 459-1155, by e-mail at (wrinklesofwashington@hotmail.com), or write to us at 1220 Raft Avenue SW, Olympia, WA 98502.

We promise we will get back to you!