Friends Life Care member, Valerie Brown, knows about the power intention has to shape lives.  Being raised in poverty in Brooklyn, New York,  her intentions were simple:  “Make money.  Get out of Brooklyn”, which wasn’t the swanky place it is today. This intention drove her to law school and to an intense, crazy-busy and high stakes career as a successful lobbyist and attorney. Days folded into months, which became years, until a couple of decades had passed. And one day, she had a sort of calling – an epiphany – that led her life down a very different pa…

January could very well be called vision month. It is the first month in the year that bears the numbers we’ve come to associate with perfect vision. It is also the month in which Americans celebrate the life and work of a visionary, Martin Luther King Jr.  And, it is Glaucoma Awareness Month. How much do you know about glaucoma? Your answer may determine whether you have vision for the future.
According to the National Council for Aging Care, “Glaucoma is the root cause of about 10 percent of total blindness in the United States, and many of the people affected are s…

What if we approached the New Year in the way a bride approaches her wedding day? We would not have to worry ourselves with well-intentioned New Year resolutions. Instead, we’d simply decide on four things to take into the new year—“something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.”

Most of us are familiar with this traditional English wedding rhyme that dates to the nineteenth century. In its shortened contemporary version (“and a sixpence in her shoe” is seldom used), the rhyme contains the clues to the “four good-luck objects…a bride…