Ripening Time
Subtitle: Inside Stories for Aging with Grace
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781780999623; 9781780999630
Subjects: Aging; Psychological aspects; Social aspects; Older people; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Discrimination & Race Relations; Minority Studies
Description: Ripening Time gives us an indispensible guidebook for growing into the deep places of wisdom as we age.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Prologue: Is there a Map?; Part I. Time to Ripen; Chapter 1. A Season of Ripening; Chapter 2. Old Age is Boring; Part II. Clearing Obstacles; Chapter 3. We Are Already Naked; Chapter 4. When Your Mind is Not Clouded; Chapter 5. Escaping Mother Culture's Web; Chapter 6. Secrets & Subtleties; Chapter 7. Pentimento; Part III. Cultivation; Chapter 8. Disturbing the Furies; Chapter 9. Opening to the Questions; Part IV. Ripeness; Chapter 10. Becoming an Elder; Chapter 11. The Presence of Elders; Chapter 12. Ancestors; Part V. Harvest.; title: Chapter 13. Lessons from the HarvestEnd Notes; Creating Elders Circles; Questions for Discussion and Reflection; Resources; Acknowledgments; Permissions.