Keystone Commons

🍕❤️ When Kindness Comes Full Circle ❤️🍕

We spent the school year visiting Harris Brook Elementary to read with the second graders; building the most beautiful bonds with students and teachers alike! 📚

Our Random Acts of Kindness group decided to show their gratitude by delivering a lunch of🍕 pizza, 🥗 salad and 🍪 cookies to the entire school staff .

❤️ Seeing everyone gathered around the table together was one of the most heartwarming moments we have had all year!

✨ A huge thank you to Christa, Ray, Barbara, Carole, Harriet and Dolores for delivering the meal and spreading so much love! Please leave Our Random Acts of kindness group some KIND words below! 👇❤️

🌿☀️ Secret Picnic Spots and Views That Take Your Breath Away ☀️🌿

Our first picnic of the season took us to Wickham Park in Manchester CT.

🧺⛲ This magical gem is one of our favorite spots with beautifully landscaped gardens, stunning views of Hartford and the most perfect hidden picnic nooks! 🌺

What is your favorite local spot to spend a beautiful day outside? 👇 We’d love to know about it! 🌿☀️

💙🌿 Remembered With Every Bloom 🌿💙

Our Forget Me Not Memorial Service brought us together to grieve, heal and hold space for one another. 💙

🙏 We paused to honor, remember and celebrate the lives of dear departed Keystone residents that touched our hearts and shaped our community in ways that will never be forgotten.

Speaker Magdalena Grace Siegel guided us through the most tender and meaningful conversation about love, loss and the unique grief that comes with forming deep friendships later in life.

🌼One by one, a Forget Me Not flower bearing the name of a beloved friend was placed on our tree — a living and blooming reminder that even though they are gone, they are never truly far. ✨🕊️

💙🌿Is there someone special who lived at Keystone you would like to honor and remember with us? We invite you to share their name or a favorite memory in the comments below — let's keep their stories alive together!

💪🌿 We are Fit and Fabulous! 🌿💪

For National Senior Health & Fitness Day we are celebrating how Keystone moves! 🏃‍♀️✨

From line dancing and ballroom dancing to boxing, cycling, axe throwing, meditation, drumming, basketball, corn hole and everything in between — our life enriching activities are designed to keep everyone active, engaged and thriving in the most joyful ways possible! 💪

📷 Check out these pictures for a glimpse of how we stay healthy and fit and tell us: what is your favorite way we stay active here at Keystone?

🐐💛 The Most Adorable Visitors 💛🐐

Cloverbrook Farm LLC brought their adorable baby goats and our residents were in heaven! 🐐

💖 These sweet little ones are trained to curl right up in your lap and fall asleep — and that is exactly what they did! 😄

🥹 Would you be able to handle how cute these bay goats are? Tell us below then share this post with friends so they can enjoy the cuteness, too! 🥬🐐

🌮💛 A Chefs Club Fiesta! 💛🌮

Our wonderful residents whipped up a delicious Mexican feast of sheet pan quesadillas and Spanish rice. 🌯🌮

😊 BIG thanks to Adele, Josephine, Teresa, Harriet, Carole, Christa and Fran for bringing the flavor and the fun today!

What is your favorite Mexican dish? 🥘 Share it below!

🎂💙 95 Amazing Years💙🎂

Happy 95th birthday to the treasured Barbara.

She is a veteran who served in the Air Force as an Airman 2nd Class, where she met the love of her life Ray. 💍 The two have been married for an incredible 73 years! ✨

📖 Barbara is a published writer who contributes to our community newsletter as well the Whimsical Writing Group.

She fills her days with entertainment, Jeopardy, happy hours and the joy of her 5 children, 9 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren! 💛🎉

💬 Drop your birthday wishes for our beautiful Barbara in the comments and help us make her 95th extra special! 👇🎂💙

✨🎨 Creativity Was Flowing 🎨✨

Twice a month, Amy from Artsong works her magic at art therapy with our Holistic Harbors residents.

Jack, Jean, Jim, Linda S., Janette, Linda B., Theresa and Mary brought their creativity to life painting these beachy seagull scenes. 🏖️🖌️🎨

💛 Thank you Amy - every session is more beautiful than the last! 💬 Leave our residents some heartfelt comments about these lovely paintings below.

💎🩵 Something Fabulous Inside 🩵💎

Bingo got a major upgrade this week with our Tiffany and Co. themed game night! 💛✨

🏆 Every winner got to pick a little blue box from our Tiffany decorated tree. 🩵🌟 They were filled with sparkling earrings, pins, bracelets and even cologne for the gentlemen! 💎

💬 What would you be hoping to find inside your little blue box? Tell us below! 👇💎🩵

🦋🍓 Almost Too Pretty to Eat!🍓🦋

Bessie, Theresa, Linda S., Linda B., Monique, Jim and Mary outdid themselves creating the most gorgeous butterfly shaped fruit pizza that was almost too beautiful to touch — almost! 😄✨

🍓 🥝 🍇🍍 Loaded with fresh fruit and assembled with creativity and care, this was a healthy and delicious masterpiece.

💛 What is your all-time favorite fruit that you'd have to add to this pizza?

🚨Save the Date 🚨

We invite you to join us for our next Alzheimer's Support group with Guest Speaker Rose Grant, author of I Left my Memory on a Bus Somewhere – A Bittersweet Journey Through Alzheimer's Disease. 📖

✨ Rose is a passionate advocate, public speaker and contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul — she will have copies of her book available for purchase!

📅 Wednesday, May 20th
🕔 5:00pm – 6:30pm
📍 460 West St., Ludlow, MA 01056

✅ Please Call (413) 438-2428 RSVP to attend | Seating is limited

💬 Tag someone who would love to be there or leave any questions you have in the comments below! 👇💜