Getting good at getting older /
Richard Siegel and Rabbi Laura Geller.
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Changing your life for (the) good -- Cooking up new rituals -- Putting the life in lifelong learning -- Discovering your inner pilgrim -- Exercising for sages in training -- Gaining wisdom: tools and resources -- Honoring your father and mother -- Caring for (and feeding) adult children -- Teaching your (children's) children well -- Rekindling the flame -- Acquiring for yourself a friend -- Finding community in all the right places -- Getting along: tools and resources -- Staying fit is a mitzvah -- Taking care of your (emotional) self -- Visiting someone who's sick -- Living in the land of the sick -- Mourning and moving on -- Regarding my body -- Getting better: tools and resources -- Getting your stuff together -- Planning for what you don't want to plan for -- Putting the fun in funeral planning -- Talking about life and death -- Getting ready: tools and resources -- Giving a damn and getting involved -- Making purpose your true north -- Volunteering with its joys (and occasional oys) -- Giving with no possibility of being repaid -- Touching the future through mentoring -- Giving back: tools and resources -- Giving strategically to make real change -- Mixing community and philanthropy -- Leaving a legacy, not a landfill -- Telling your story -- Remembering me like this -- Giving away: tools and resources.
"From the creator of the best-selling The Jewish Catalog comes Getting Good at Getting Older, a tour for all of us "of a certain age" through the resources and skills we need to navigate the years between maturity and old age. It brings humor, warmth, and 4,000 years of Jewish experience to the question of how to shape this new stage of life"--