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Time's Bounty: Rethinking Aging
Change your perspective about aging. Here is a bracing view of the surprises that lie ahead, as age enkindles in us new expressions of life.
Our culture isn’t kind towards age. The dominant drive is to celebrate youth, and striving for more and more of everything, while age, we’re told, brings only depletion and loss. Even as Americans live longer, most consider old age with dread. It’s time to challenge these assumptions.
As author Philip Weinstein writes, “Old-age situations, assumed to announce the end-of-the-road, actually generate fresh life-moves. As we age, we tend to become ‘lighter’ in more senses than one....Indeed, we may find ourselves catapulted into late-stage ‘adventures’ the young never dream of.”
Time’s Bounty offers a view of age that differs greatly from our preconceptions—surprising, emancipating, sometimes even joyful. In five brief chapters, the author takes us from the generative discoveries that age occasions to the freedom that comes in life’s late chapters, when no company or institution or cause any longer owns us. At last, we are our own, in ways we could not imagine when younger.
This is a view of age very different from preconceptions—emancipating, transformative, inspiring, joyful. In five brief chapters, the author takes us from the dawning of new possibilities to the freedom that comes when no company or institution or cause owns you. At last, you are your own and with that comes a tremendous release.
Weinstein, a retired professor of English, draws not only on his own insights but on the wisdom found in writers he taught for Shakespeare, Yeats, Proust, Faulkner, Eliot, Beckett, and others. Brief forays into their imaginative works add further illumination to the author’s own discoveries regarding the dramas—both the trials and the gifts—of old age.
Whatever your own life’s season, whether you’re still in the Spring or deep into life’s Winter, Time’s Bounty will change the way you think about age.
Our culture isn’t kind towards age. The dominant drive is to celebrate youth, and striving for more and more of everything, while age, we’re told, brings only depletion and loss. Even as Americans live longer, most consider old age with dread. It’s time to challenge these assumptions.
As author Philip Weinstein writes, “Old-age situations, assumed to announce the end-of-the-road, actually generate fresh life-moves. As we age, we tend to become ‘lighter’ in more senses than one....Indeed, we may find ourselves catapulted into late-stage ‘adventures’ the young never dream of.”
Time’s Bounty offers a view of age that differs greatly from our preconceptions—surprising, emancipating, sometimes even joyful. In five brief chapters, the author takes us from the generative discoveries that age occasions to the freedom that comes in life’s late chapters, when no company or institution or cause any longer owns us. At last, we are our own, in ways we could not imagine when younger.
This is a view of age very different from preconceptions—emancipating, transformative, inspiring, joyful. In five brief chapters, the author takes us from the dawning of new possibilities to the freedom that comes when no company or institution or cause owns you. At last, you are your own and with that comes a tremendous release.
Weinstein, a retired professor of English, draws not only on his own insights but on the wisdom found in writers he taught for Shakespeare, Yeats, Proust, Faulkner, Eliot, Beckett, and others. Brief forays into their imaginative works add further illumination to the author’s own discoveries regarding the dramas—both the trials and the gifts—of old age.
Whatever your own life’s season, whether you’re still in the Spring or deep into life’s Winter, Time’s Bounty will change the way you think about age.
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152 pages, Hardcover
Published November 11, 2025
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November 8, 2025
I was expecting some kind of wisdom, an enlightenment from someone who lived almost 3 times longer than me, some feeling of lightness knowing that you are parting soon with life. Instead, there are ramblings of an old man who is pulling threads from literature, however beautiful or timeless is, is still someone else's words.
A book that is supposed to be extremely personal, lack's author's personality and presence.
Or maybe I'm just jealous that someone was so lucky to live until their late years and only then think deeply about death, disease and departure with your loved ones.
A book that is supposed to be extremely personal, lack's author's personality and presence.
Or maybe I'm just jealous that someone was so lucky to live until their late years and only then think deeply about death, disease and departure with your loved ones.
July 28, 2025
A book about how one’s perspective of age & times evolves from something of consistent direction of loss to something that is a something that can be surprising and full of unexpected joy. A reflection of what one can’t clearly see in youth or even middle-age; that a long life is a gift.
November 9, 2025
The book of a person who lived a happy and safe life. People who are familiar with the disease and hardship in the formative and young years of their life might find themselves a surprised as the author muses on very common things so late in their life. Overall, it is a poetic book that inspires you to think about your own life, youth and possible later years.
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