While we’re celebrating the ever-popular Solheim Senior Community’s 100 years of serving seniors, let’s take a tour through one hundred years of popular music. Feel free to sing along!

In 1923, Adolph Larson envisioned “a cozy Christian home to rest when the sun goeth down” and Solheim Lutheran Home was created in Eagle Rock, California. One year later, Al Jolson recorded “California, Here I Come,” a song often called the unofficial state song of California. (The official state song is 1913’s “I Love You California.” Agreed: “California Here I Come” is infinitely better.)

Bette Davis said it best: “Old age is no place for sissies.” One of the toughest parts of aging—one we don’t talk about very much—is loneliness. Because as we age, we start losing the emotional support systems we’ve spent a lifetime creating, and that loss is painful.

Maybe our beloved mate or favorite sister or longtime best friend has died. Maybe we’ve had to geographically relocate for financial or familial reasons, leaving our treasured friends behind. Or maybe close friendships have suddenly and dramatically ruptured, leaving us emotionally bereft.

With summer speeding by it’ll be Halloween before we know it, which means it’s almost time to slip on our masks—the glamorous, mysterious, romantic kind!

This October 28, Solheim Senior Community celebrates our Centennial with our first ever Masquerade Ball, and you are invited! The theme is “Unmasking Solheim’s Second Century,” which you can interpret in any fabulous way you like.