NEW JERSEY (PIX11) -- You’re never too old to learn something new. Lou Chodosh, a 98-year-old retired neurologist and psychiatrist, has spent the last eight years developing a newfound talent: pencil drawing.
“It has rounded out life again after a succession of losses,” said Chodosh.
That series of losses included the passing of his wife, retirement after 60 years of private practice, and the end of his 70-year violin hobby due to arthritis.
Chodosh stumbled into drawing when he went to have a picture reframed at Pencilworks Studio in Little Falls. “When I saw Pencilworks offered art classes, I signed up immediately,” said Chodosh.
Owners Jerry and Karen Winick see Chodosh nearly every week for art lessons. “In class, he just wants to be helpful to everyone else,” said Jerry Winick. “He’s very good at what he does and he cares about what everyone else is doing also.”
“Every time he comes to class, I’m so happy to see him,” said Karen Winick. “We just care so much about him. He’s become part of the family.”
It was at Pencilworks where Chodosh reconnected with a woman who brought her son to him for treatment years ago.
“There was a woman - a widow named Betty - who remembered my name for 50 years,” said Chodosh. “Fifty years later, I show up in her art class that she’d been going to for 20 years.”
That chance reconnection helped Chodosh re-establish a social life and prove that age is truly just a number.
“I want to be like him,” said Jerry Winick. “He’s just a wonderful human being. Everyone wants to be like Lou.”
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