Getting Older, Growing Wiser
Foreword
Do you dread birthdays? Do you lie about your age? Are you eligible for benefits and discounts offered to older people—but don’t claim them? Are some body parts less dependable than they once were—including your mind and memory?
A poem by Frank Canatella includes this line: “Life is too much to have all at once.” Apparently we must take it as it comes—in the order that it’s given. You have known a lot of living. Now you face a part of life that many people find daunting and fraught with danger and decline: growing old.
Author Carol Ann Morrow faces aging squarely, showing how to contemplate it with curiosity and expectation. As you journey with her through some of the common dilemmas of growing older, you’ll find yourself scaling a mountain range of possibilities—both peaks and pits.