The Joy of Joeys as Docents at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

Hi there everybody!

I posted an article, or 'topic' as they're called here on the website, over in a neighboring forum and I wanted to let you know here how to find it, since most of my pieces are posted in this 'functional' forum related to occupational therapy.

This piece is about my husband and me in retirement volunteering and studying to become docents at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, where we both work with Wallaby Joeys. It's been a joy and is part of our overall wellness, so that's why this particular article is posted in a different forum than usual.

There are some neat pictures that were taken of us and of the Joeys. One of them is very special, being an albino, and they have been very wonderful teachers to us related to the ability of animals with all people, but especially those with special needs, such as a little boy with autism I write about in the piece. So I hope you go read if it sounds interesting to you!

Petie the OT :)

www.lumigrate.com/forum/retirement-action-zoo-oh-joy-joeys [1]

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Those who read Petie's pieces at Lumigrate.com (found regularly in the forum related to therapies/functional and occupational -- link: http://www.lumigrate.com/forums/integrative-medicine-parts-m... [2]) learn she grew up in California with "Bobby" Redford and has had an interesting life from beginning to today. She graduated from USC in technical illustrating and drafting and was the first female draftsman for The Wall Street Journal in South Brunswick, New Jersey. She returned to USC to become an occupational therapist and enjoyed the 'heyday' of therapy in prestigious programs in California, and was an entrepreneur for many years. She had a daughter then adopted a son, Thomas, who she writes about regularly; they have been each others' greatest teachers, as it turns out he had developmental disabilities. Remarrying in middle age, she and her husband Bob moved to Colorado and now enjoy 'active retirement'. Petie appreciates the opportunities to continue teaching through sharing at Lumigrate and hopes those who read find as much enjoyment in reading as she does in writing.