For our annual “Aging Gratefully” cover package, Jmore interviewed three members of the Edward A. Myerberg Center in Northwest Baltimore to learn about how participating in creative endeavors there has added meaning, nuance and purpose to their lives.
Good Medicine
Creatively speaking, Dr. Charles I. Weiner calls himself “a chameleon.”
“If you ask me my particular [artistic] style, I’ll say, ‘I just don’t know yet,’” says Weiner, 79, who lives in Pikesville with his wife, Ilene. “I tend to like things that are a bit unusual, a little weird. Some people like it, and for some people it’s a little sick. But I like all kinds of art.”
A diagnostic radiologist, Weiner is alluding to the approximately 100 acrylic paintings that he’s created since retiring in early 2020 and taking art classes at the Myerberg Center…