AARP Rewards Community Learning & Earning Contest August 2022

I do a stretching and breathing yoga class three days a week coupled with an aerobic workout beforehand. I start the day with wordle and quordle and worldle. Reading and books on tape keep me thinking.I have also reached 400+ days on Duolingo working on a bit of Spanish. I am getting there!

I mostly play Scrabble, Daily Crossword, Ball Stort and Heza Block on my phone.  I have tried some AARP games and find them challenging. I read articles on the AARP site and find them to be very helpful.  I also read Daily Christian Devotionals that I receive automatically on my computer, these feed my mind and my soul.

I take weekly Zumba and cardio dance classes at my local gym. Having to learn new dance steps and keep up with the much younger instructors keeps my brain active.

I do my best to eat healthy, get 8-9 hours sleep each night, walk for 30 minutes each day on the treadmill, lift light weights every other day, and do genealogy research. Genealogy research has enough confusion in it alone to challenge one's mind in keeping facts straight. I often do the brain exercises on the AARP website.

I work part time at a community snr center, i continue to exercise 5 days a week , variety, Pilates, yoga, eccentrics, aerobics. I eat organic produce with some fish, chicken and a little dairy, yogurt in the AM, keep gluten/GMO free. But more important than all of that is that i have been working to understand how such an intelligent species as our own got "ourselves" into this Great Mess! With several degrees, the last one in environmental science in 2012, I gained enough background material to understand enough as to how but better, to posit a New Story based on what we "can now know" if we drop the blinders of the limited level of seeing most of us appear to experience. There is a New possible Story, that's what activates my me and my brain.

I like to take quizzes and read about topics I am interested in like "is your home age ready" from the Rewards earning page.

Adriana

I exercise daily. Eat mostly healthy food. Having a vegetable garden helps with both of those. I read and do AARP games.

I stay curious no matter what. If it's my budget, a new book, my husband's latest contraption, or the bird cawing/peeping/singing outside my window, I stay open. I know there's something new to learn.

I keep my brain active by walking over 5000 steps each day.

I stretch and balance in the a.m., and walk, bike, dance, or kayak daily.  Twice a week I volunteer with a group of people who have early Alzheimer's and help them with mental and artistic exercises.  I took online sign language during the pandemic, and I do AARP, NYT and other games/quizzes (spelling bee, crossword, sudoku, word wipe) for fun. I also play hand drums to maintain a sense of rhythym.  I meet up with friends and family several times a week to feel connected and happy.