Time's Bounty: Rethinking Aging

“A guide to growing old with grace and wisdom.”—Kirkus

“An elegant rumination....Wise, unvarnished.”—Publishers Weekly

Change your perspective about aging. Here is a bracing view of the surprises that lie ahead, as age enkindles in us new expressions of life.

Our culture isn’t kind towards age. The dominant drive is to celebrate youth, and striving for more and more of everything, while age, we’re told, brings only depletion and loss. Even as Americans live longer, most consider old age with...