This involved fulfilling the daily routine; keeping up valued roles and relationships, for example as grandparents, friends or church members; and engaging in pastimes and leisure interests, which included voluntary work, paid work, housework, dancing, swimming, art and gardening.
In Theres, something rich & joyful to the mind, Clare links the path to Sunday leisure, when the workers who live along its path escape the "week's prison" engage in pastimes they enjoy for their own sake.
Seniors who regularly engaged in pastimes that stretched their minds -- sorry, watching TV doesn't count -- lowered their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other dementias by as much as 75percentt, compared with those who didn't exercise their minds, researchers said yesterday.
Numerous studies have also noted seniors' desire to be engaged in pastimes that they find meaningful and rewarding [ 40, 55, 68, 69].
No sense engaging in his favorite pastime — needling the Patriots — with the Jets lagging in the A.F.C. standings.
But pretty soon, offended Indians got on Facebook and Twitter, engaging in their favourite pastime: shoot the messenger.
What stuck with me more than any of those, though, were the three hours I spent with Mr. Wright, engaging in his favorite pastime of driving around and looking at old houses.
The NCAI's Public Sector Leadership Award is going to Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, who just a year into his stewardship of America's old pastime started engaging Cleveland's ownership about ridding its uniforms of the cartoonish Chief Wahoo logo that racially stereotyped native features.
Mr. Clinton has also been engaging in another favorite pastimes: golf.
The video features a load of Millennials engaging in their favorite pastimes: laughing, skateboarding, putting stickers on lampposts, and, of course, appropriating Mexican Day of the Dead imagery.
Are we just addicts permanently distracted from what "really matters" as we engage in a pastime with no redeeming value?
