10/02/2026
Another week in the books. We had a blast bowling. We had a birthday party with friends and family, planted a bunch of new baby plants, wrote thank you cards, and enjoyed the gorgeous weather at Riverfront Park.
And it was the end of the month, so we had our calendar meeting. All through the month, if we come up with activities we’d like to do or something we would like to learn more about, we put it in our planning book. Then we meet to create the calendar for the next month. It’s important to us that we do this together, so everyone has agency in deciding what we do.
Every day, we work on individual goals, life skills, communication, bettering our health, social skills, exploring the community, taking care of our center (and our many plants), being creative, and building relationships
Weekly or monthly, we have places we love to visit regularly. We volunteer at the Facing Hunger Food Bank, tend our pollinator garden, we have a joke of the week, we have picnics or eat out, the Huntington Museum, and we usually arrange a tour to check out a new business or place to learn about and meet new exciting folks.
A few times a month, we go to one of our fabulous Cabell County Libraries. This month Sara Ramezani will be doing a training for us at our center to learn about and get the most out of the library’s online services. If anyone would like to join us, we’d love to have you. They provide so many services we are just learning about. It’s bound to be helpful for anyone curious about what they offer, or how to navigate the online resources. If you don’t know Sara, she is responsible for the coordinating adult programming. If you’d like to attend, send us a message.
We have hung out in almost every library in the county in our first few months. There is always cool stuff going on. Like today and tomorrow is the book sale at the Main Library. We made terrariums, we made tie dyes for the country’s 250th at the library in Cox Landing (like every one of our libraries, the staff are the exceptional), we played games, perused magazines and best of all, one of us got his library card back after years! It was a joyful moment. And it lead to a renewed interest in reading for him. He reads the books he gets to us. This week, he picked out a book of poems.
One of our partnerships with the library is to volunteer in the kids section with Miss Stacy and read to or help with events for preschool classes. Seeing the renewed joy in reading, and the new goal of reading to kids has been inspiring. All courtesy of the people of our wonderful library system.
We do a lot of research when making our calendar. We have stacks of WV magazines our sweet friend, Shelley, gave us. We go through local events pages. We base our choices on the personal interests of everyone.
We have most of our days pencilled in for October. There is always so much to do in the Fall in our area. But are hoping to pop in and do a few tours. Our neighbor, Spencer Wilson, just moved in. We have become fast friends. We resonated immediately around the importance of being in community and building community. He is a chiropractor. He shares great videos about health, wellness and healing on his Mountain State Movement pages. We are going to see if he will give us a tour and maybe give us some healthcare advice. We can all use some of that these days.
We have great neighbors. So many people dedicated to the wellness of our city.
