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Recreation and Leisure Services and CTRS, Olivia Mogab

BETWEEN THE BOOKENDS

S E N I O R L I V I N G

October 2020 Edition

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Consultant Dietitian, RDN, CSG and FAND, Candace S. Johnson

The Horror Of My Other Self

TheWellAge Experience

After Labor Day, pumpkin invasion starts. Pumpkin spice everything – food, coffee, creamers, candles and even

cosmetics. Even pumpkin farms are busy this year, possibly related to COVID with popular fall festivities.

So why the excitement of pumpkin? It is a sign of fall but offers much more. Pumpkin is actually a fruit

and quite nutrient dense with vitamins A and C, antioxidants and fiber. It may boost your immune

system, protect your eyesight, lower your risk of certain cancers and promote heart and skin health. Beware of the sugary pumpkin lattes, pies, and candies. They lack

the nutrition power house of pure pumpkin. Try roasting fresh pumpkin or incorporating into stews and soup. Add pumpkin seeds to salads and casseroles. Let the

invasion make a healthy meal!

NUTRITION

Is It Pumpkin Invasion?

The smell of roasting chiles is such a great aroma ... “

Calabacitas ConMaíz

TASTE OF THE SEASON

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Ingredients:• 6 ears of corn on the cob (sweet peaches and cream corn preferably) – cut the corn off the cob• 3 medium size zucchini or 4 summer squash - chopped• ½ onion - diced• 1 tbsp of lard (or vegetable oil)• Green chile (roasted, peeled, and cut up) to taste 2 to 4 heaping tbsp• Salt• Pepper• Garlic salt

Directions:Melt lard in pan, add onion and corn off the cob, salt, pepper, and garlic salt. Chop zucchini or summer squash while corn starts cooking. (The corn takes longer to cook than the squash.) Add, zucchini or summer squash and green chile, salt, pepper and garlic salt. Cook over medium heat for about 45 minutes or until everything is done and most of the juice has evaporated.

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Innovations Specialist and LCSW, Hope Carwile

Loved One’s Thoughts on Change

We all know change can be hard, especially when the changes are out of our control. Recently I

took a moment to ask some fellow friends and colleagues what they liked and disliked about

change, the responses I think many can relate too.• I do not

• • • • • • • • • Change is inevitable; we would not evolve as people if change did not occur. So I ask for each of us, especially in this uncertain time, to explore, inquire, ask questions on how we are thinking and feeling about change. Often times if we sit with the changes, the good and the bad of it, we will uncover the learning and growing which comes with it.

• I do not like it when change is forced upon me without my input• Change can be a positive thing when it guides us to what we need to be doing• I like it when my opinion is taken into consideration before the change happens• If change needs to happen without my knowing, I would like to know why, I don’t have to know

the whole story but need to trust the person who is making the changes• Positive relationships are so important when change occurs• Change often is out of our control, however if we ride the rocky roads together and trust in the

process and the people, we can go places

We all know change can be hard, especially when the changes are out of our control.

Recently I took a moment to ask some fellow friends and colleagues what they liked and

disliked about change, the responses I think many can relate too.

Coming from a hispanic home, fall always meant time to put up green chile for the year. The smell of roasting chiles is such a great aroma that we always look forward to this time of year. One of the other special things that becomes available in the fall is corn. Sweet peaches and cream corn. Getting itfresh from the farm when we go to get the chile to put up for the year is always a treat. And the best combination of this sweet corn and chile is a dish called calabacitas. This is a wonderful side dish to serve with just about any meal.

CHIT, CHATTING ON CHANGE

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.” These famous words uttered by Dr. Henry Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This particular story has recently consumed my thoughts. To intentionally allow oneself to be consumed by evil. As Henry Jekyll knowingly drank his sinful concoction to push him over the edge into pure evil, thepure evil known as Edward Hyde, he knowingly let himself go. He describes it as freeing, an addiction. To separate himself of the natural evil that resides in himself, and wake free of it. Evil went out it’s merry way the night or days before, and he Dr. Jekyll arrives back in bed none the wiser, to focus on the “good” in himself. But it doesn’t stop there, the evil eventually does consume him, and painfully so. As an adult, we often see Edward Hyde roaming around, he’s easy to point out in others. But harder when we find him within ourselves. Today I find myself thinking, which shall I be? Shall I drink the cup of sinners and sufferers with ease, or shall I put my shaky hand down, regardless of how hard Mr. Hyde fights. “There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this briefcondescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.” The choice is ours.