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Retreat returns elders to the great outdoors
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Call Paul or Woody at 503/675-0800
Mention Just Out
when you call
and I will
come out to
your place
Bybee-Milwaukie Office
OR0140
7000 S.E. Milwaukie Avenue
Portland, OR 97202
503 275-6600
503 275-5493 fax
24-Hour Service:
503 872-2657
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inspiration from the medieval tome. She knew
ark your calendar, grab your gay
granny, and hit the highway that memories are triggered by sights, sounds,
Aug. 17. She won’t want to smells and feel of the natural world. She consid
miss the first-ever Gay and Les ers it one of Weavers Tale’s most important jobs
bian Day at Weavers Tale to encourage participants to tell their stories.
Activities are interwoven with hands-on
Retreat Center!
personal
attention designed to enliven and
The Portland grassroots nonprofit group
has been providing
one-day nature outings
for seniors since 1993.
At a woodland facility
between Sandy and
Eagle Creek, Weavers
Tale does its work
through a diverse
group of professionals
including naturalists,
physical therapists, oc
cupational therapists,
and massage and music
therapists. They lavish
seniors with friend
ship, fun, care and as
sistance as needed.
Oh, and lunch, too!
The goal of Weavers
Tale is to honor and
enrich the souls of our
elders by the gentle and
nurturing stimulation
of sensory contact with
nature. This is not a
religious or spiritually
based enterprise. There
is no agenda other than
empowering elders to
be fully alive; to experi
ence renewal of their
connection to nature,
their pasts and others;
and to express them
selves through story
telling. The group ac Edie Seyl is reaching out to gay and lesbian seniors
tivities have been
noted to have a near-magical effect on those reconnect elders to their past. Participants often
whose physical impairments or other circum begin to retrieve memories of childhood and
stances have kept them from contact with the personal experiences when they feel the antlers
of a deer or sit in a circle and sing old songs that
natural world.
were popular in their youth.
It all started with a young woman’s dream.
Weavers Tale is up to doing about eight half
About 25 years ago, Edie Seyl was a young
day
retreats each summer. Work on the Molalla
activities director for a nursing home. She could
see that the sensory deprivation of institutional property has been awaiting the substantial funds
living tends to cause residents to lose interest in necessary for permits and building. The land has
themselves and in the life around them. She been cleared, and an architect’s drawings are fin
wanted to do something to help counteract this ished. Until the project is completed, retreats
will continue to take place at the Alton L.
ubiquitous problem but was not sure exactly what.
Collins
facility on Highway 211.
Seyl soon purchased five wooded acres on a
Through its two primary fund-raising events
creek and pond in Molalla with only a vague
sense of what she would create there. During a each year and through grants Seyl is able to
summer when she lived on the land in a tent, obtain, Weavers Tale will continue to maintain
her idea began to take shape.
its summer schedule, pay staff and reach out to
She started to dream of a retreat center include more populations, such as the upcoming
where seniors from institutions and private Gay and Lesbian Day.
homes could spend a day immersed in arts and
Sounds nice, but you’re not in a rest home
leisure. The idea of freeing elders from the ster yet? And neither is your granny? Good news:
ile boredom of facility living so they could spend Weavers Tale considers gay, lesbian, bisexual
an occasional day on a pond among frogs, ducks, and trans community members and their loved
fish, beavers and great blue herons set Seyl on a ones who have reached the ripe old age of 50 to
trajectory of slow and steady accomplishment to be the elders of our community. Group size will
be limited to about 25, so make your reserva
fulfillment of her vision.
tions early. JM
She took care of nuts and bolts through the
years, building the structure to support a success
ful effort. She first obtained her occupational ther To take part in the WEAVERS TALE G ay AND
apist license. Then she committed to the ongoing L esbian D ay retreat, call 503'234'4202.
Cost is only $18.50 ($13.50 for brown'haggers).
paperwork chore of incorporating as a nonprofit.
There was no weaver in Chaucer’s Canter
bury Tales, but in naming her project, Seyl took N ancy W alseth is a Portland free'lance writer.
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