A Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain explores questions of meaning and spirituality in aging through the stories and experiences of elders.
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Introduction
Part I: Aging
One: Loss
Two: Change
Three: Identity
Four: Help
Part II: Meaning
Five: Exemplars
Six: Choice
Seven: Relationship
Eight: Legacy
Part III: Spirit
Nine: Letting Go
Ten: Presence
Eleven: Mystery
Conclusion
In the experience of aging, we encounter that core of loneliness in ourselves and also in others. Each of us is separate; each approaches aging as a distinct being. Yet we share that condition with everybody else: our contemporaries, those who have lived before us, and those yet to come. All of us are alone as we age. In sharing that condition, we are profoundly connected. The tension between opposites—aloneness and connection, meaninglessness and meaning, diminishment and renewal—produces a creative space from which I draw the energy that drives these reflections.
In Later Years is a primer for aging, helping us to navigate these difficult waters with grace and purpose.
—Marilyn Sewell, author of Breaking Free: Women of Spirit at Midlife and Beyond
Introduction
Part I: Aging
One: Loss
Two: Change
Three: Identity
Four: Help
Part II: Meaning
Five: Exemplars
Six: Choice
Seven: Relationship
Eight: Legacy
Part III: Spirit
Nine: Letting Go
Ten: Presence
Eleven: Mystery
Conclusion
In the experience of aging, we encounter that core of loneliness in ourselves and also in others. Each of us is separate; each approaches aging as a distinct being. Yet we share that condition with everybody else: our contemporaries, those who have lived before us, and those yet to come. All of us are alone as we age. In sharing that condition, we are profoundly connected. The tension between opposites—aloneness and connection, meaninglessness and meaning, diminishment and renewal—produces a creative space from which I draw the energy that drives these reflections.
In Later Years is a primer for aging, helping us to navigate these difficult waters with grace and purpose.
—Marilyn Sewell, author of Breaking Free: Women of Spirit at Midlife and Beyond
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