Monday, Nov. 25, 2024
Recently OLLI members visited the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, CA. The park offers one of the most beautiful vistas of the San Francisco Bay. Joggers, bikers, and parents with babies in strollers following the Bay Trail passed by as we listened to OLLI member and Rosie docent Simone Adair provide us with an overview of the history of women and the bay.
Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024
The older we get, the faster time seems to speed by, often magnifying our concerns about what may be around the corner. Our minds muse with comparisons and projections as we weigh the health and life spans of our parents and siblings with our own. At the end of a calendar year, we may even ponder whether we’ll be alive to see another.
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024
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OLLI @Berkeley has just been voted "Best Continuing Education Option in Oakland…
Friday, Nov. 15, 2024
Groucho Marx once said, “From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.” As an avid reader, I think Groucho got cause-and-effect wrong. Even so, he has inspired me to propose the creation of a book list in his honor.
Friday, Nov. 01, 2024
Aaron Colverson is a postdoctoral fellow at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and is affiliate faculty at the UF Center for Arts in Medicine. He earned his BM from Berklee College of Music and his MM and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He is teaching "Neuro-ethnomusicology for Aging Brain Health" with us this winter.
Friday, Nov. 01, 2024
Amelia Barili PhD is a UC Berkeley professor emerita and a Polyvagal Institute faculty member. She received the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, and teaches a systematic embodied approach for personal transformation. She is teaching “Ancient Wisdom and Neuroscience: Befriending Your Nervous System” with us this winter.
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024
Recently, members took a tour of the Rosie the Riveter 💪 WWII National Home Front Museum in Richmond led by Rosie docent and OLLI member Simone Adair. What an inspiring tribute to the thousands of American women who built the ships and machinery necessary to fight and win WWII and save the world from fascism!
Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024
Winner of the 2014 Book of the Year Award, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Happens in the End, by Atul Gawande, is extraordinary in its explication of what often happens as the end of one’s life draws near.
Friday, Oct. 04, 2024
Bernstein’s philosophy was basically that music is love, and his mission in life was to spread that love everywhere. He was a musician's musician, and a consummate teacher.
Tuesday, Oct. 01, 2024
Dive deep into music and the brain, the politics of climate change, a rock and roll road trip, science, film, writing, literature, and more. Courses are exclusively for OLLI @Berkeley members.
Tuesday, Oct. 01, 2024
At the Berkeley supermarket, I bagged my groceries and then paid. “Thank you,” I said when the cashier handed me the receipt. “Be safe out there,” he responded, smiling and nodding benevolently as though his words would avert harm from coming my way. An odd good-bye, I thought as I walked back to my car in sunny daylight.
Monday, Sep. 30, 2024
On the first day of the first year of medical school, we students were each given a free “Doctor’s Instrument Bag” which included a stethoscope inside. It was as if we doctors-to-be were being anointed to physician-hood. It was a proud moment that I still recall nearly six decades later.