This book I aim to write is like a fever on the brain! It's infected my thoughts, so they keep turning to ways to bring a true & lasting difference into the lives of all ages facing the challenge of friends & family growing older, much older.
My life has been so remarkably blessed with opportunities to embed myself into the lives of olders - many of whom just ticked off the years, some of whom spent their life developing into a wise elder. It is revealing to me, realizing that Mom didn't grow into a wise elder in a vacuum, to look back & see the things she did all her life that contributed to everything she was as she tipped the old-o-meter (her phrase) into her 80s & 90s.
Gail Larsen says that to change the world, tell a better story. Seems to me that the best way to improve & upgrade the tools people currently have for being in & work with the challenges & opportunities of significantly older age is to tell a better story. And there's no better one than Mom's. So let's begin.
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