This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590307763 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In this intimate and funny collection of essays on the sometimes confusing, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious condition of being a woman over sixty, Susan Moon keeps her sense of humor and she keeps her reader fully engaged. Among the pieces she has included here are an essay on the gratitude she feels for her weakening bones; observations on finding herself both an orphan and a matriarch following the death of her mother; musings on her tendency to regret the past; thoughts on how not to be afraid of loneliness; appreciation for the inner tomboy; and celebratory advice on how to regard "senior moments" as opportunities to be in the here and now.
Helps navigate the joys and sorrows of aging Niki Collins-queen, Author Susan Moon compares her 60s "Consciousness-raising group" to her current Crones Group. The first was to resist and expose sexism the second to accept and realize "This is how it is" and ask, "How can I work with it. The women even found themselves celebrating old age.Moon says it annoys her when people. A Thoughtful, Meditative Look at Aging I enjoyed this book although I'll admit I'd hoped for more discussion of the negative and positive aspects of being single again in one's sixties. I did enjoy what she had to say about her fear of never having sex again although she admits to a waning libido. I wished that she would have been a little . Zen sage on aging Susan just visited our independent book store here in town. She is wise and humble with a fine sense of humor.
Overall, the book is long on dignity but a bit short on both Zen and humor, focusing on earnest self-disclosure. Her best writing occurs when memory, emotion, and spirit coalesce as she recovers parts of herself left behind in childhood or comes to terms with solitude. From Publishers Weekly In her mid-60s, Bay Area Zen practitioner Moon, former editor of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship's Turning Wheel magazine, writes, I wanted to look right into the face of oldness. . (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. What is it? Gentle essays are grouped into three sections: mind/body, relationships, and spirit. But Moon's honesty about the inner and outer realities of a
She lives in Berkeley, California. . She is the former editor of Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism. Susan Moon is a writer and longtime Zen Buddhist who teaches popular writing workshops, mostly in California