Glens Falls (NY) Online Book Discussion Group discussion

Re: _The Art of Aging_ - A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being by Sherwin B. Nuland

I recently borrowed this book from the library. I've read up to p. 10. Looks like an interesting book.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Excerpt from p. 8:
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"Adapting is not mere reconciling. [...:] 'attune' may, in fact, better describe the process than 'adapt': 'attune', in the sense of being newly receptive to signals welcome and unwelcome, and to a variety of experiences not previously in range, while achieving a kind of harmony with the real circumstances of our lives.

"This book is about attuning to the passage of years, and finding a new receptiveness to the possibilities that may present themselves in times yet to come - possibilities conveyed in wavelengths perceptible only to those no longer young."
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Seems reasonable... and wise... to me.
I like that word: "attune".
-Joy

Another excerpt from the book, p.10:
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"There is much to savor during this time, magnified and given more meaning and intensity by the very finitude within which it is granted to us.

Aging has the power to concentrate not only our minds but our energies, too, because it tells us that all is no longer possible [...:] From here on, we must play only to our strengths. [...:] The later decades of a life become the time for our capabilities to find an unscattered focus,and in this way increase the force of their concentrated worth."

p. 10, _The Art of Aging_, by Sherwin B. Nuland
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I'm finding this to be so true. -Joy