The Grace of Age

by Cultura Animi, Rob Riemen, Alexey Bogantsev

We live in times in which old age is out of favor, fearful as we are of all that it brings: the loneliness due to the loss of all loved ones; the inevitable physical failings; the awareness of the transience of human life and our own mortality. However, old age also brings us understanding, knowledge and life experience that youth can never give us. And every tradition is a treasury we owe to the passing of years. As a reminder of this, the fifth edition in our Cultura Animi series offers four beautiful reflections by Alexey Bogantsev, Lorraine Daston, David Dubal and Lenny Kaye on the passing of years, the value of the past, tradition and the grace of old age.

70 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2022