Foreword: meeting the shadow of age / Harry R. Moody -- Prologue: A letter to my fellow travelers in later life -- Introduction: age is our curriculum -- Aging from the inside out -- The three portals of age -- Meeting ageism from the inside out and the outside in -- Retirement as a divine messenger -- Life-changing illness as divine messenger -- A review of your lived and unlived life -- Emotional and creative repair to release the past and live in the present -- Spiritual repair to reimagine our beliefs and reclaim our practices -- Elder with a thousand faces -- Elder wisdom and the call -- Elder activism and the call to serve something larger than ourselves -- Moving toward a completed life -- Reimagining death as the last rite -- Epilogue: a legacy letter to the grandchildren.
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