Not a surprise that using the creative side of your brain aids in brain health.

@corelli   Thanks, great compliment

@ghdprentice  You know, good points made on the 5 years thing.  I see my friends starting their retirement and they seem lost.  One lady has turned into a hermit, rarely leaves the house, and plays on BoardGameArena hours a day. She loves board games, so its better than watching TV. Lack of goals, I agree with that too. I was super goal driven, fix that, fix this, fix myself, etc.  Now, I latch onto every project like its major..  I spent months researching a new amp for my stereo, literally months.  The amp is ordered and arriving next week, being shipped UPS.  

I've been retired for about 12 years, and while I'm more into the Great Indoors, I'm always working with my photographs in Photoshop while preparing to put out a book, reading great works of fiction, watching great movies and serial TV series, and learning about different things of interest online. I like the arts I take in to be somewhat challenging and thought-inducing. 

Read and Walk and you will longer ....Hopefully.