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Silver Linings: What Five Ninety-Something Women Taught Me About Positive Aging
Role models are not just for the young. Professional life coach Peggy Bonsee believes they are just as important in later years as when we start out in life. This book profiles five "golden ladies" who inspired and taught her by tackling the inevitable challenges of age with creativity and panache. Readers will meet the wise and funny Claire, the smart and modest Jane, the practical and loving Lilma, the fearless Estelle, and the "very unconventional" Maggie. As their lively profiles show, these very different women shared a determination to live as fully as possible throughout their long and richly experienced lives, modeling the kinds of attitudes and decisions that will help readers negotiate the challenges of later life and enjoy increased well-being despite the circumstances. Thoughtful reflections, optional exercises, and a valuable resource section add guidance to inspiration, making this book an invaluable resource for baby boomers facing retirement or anyone interested in the choices and attitudes that contribute to living well at any age.
334 pages, Paperback
First published November 3, 2014
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February 5, 2015
There once were five ladies from Nanucket
Who didn't want to kick the bucket.
So they lived and had fun
Had their days in the sun
And told others not to knock it.
How could anyone write a book about ladies from Nantucket and not do a limerick???
So, okay, all of us baby boomers are getting older and headed for retirement, and there's plenty of financial and physical advice and help. But there's not much out there about what to actually do, how to enjoy your sunset years even if you do have money and health.
Bonsee is a professional certified life coach and she uses these five women she meets during her summers in Nantucket as examples of "positive aging." They're great women. They're funny and happy and have hobbies, volunteer, don't whine and complain. They adjust and adapt.
Bonsee has an ending chapter where she wraps up all the different attributes these women have, but she misses one. They were this way when they were children, teens, married, young parents and middle aged. The question Bonsee doesn't answer is--if you're not plucky and cheery and positive at say, 24 and 42, how does it bode at 62 or 72? I can't imagine a grumpypants can change the day her first SS check gets deposited.
She has a good point, though, about aging positively. If you go into the dining hall of a nursing home, who do you want to talk to? The ones telling a joke or talking about their day. So they get more attention and it's a self fulfilling circle, where they attract happy people, who in turn make them happy and on and on.
If you come to my table in the nursing home we'll have limerick contests! Winner gets lime jello!
Who didn't want to kick the bucket.
So they lived and had fun
Had their days in the sun
And told others not to knock it.
How could anyone write a book about ladies from Nantucket and not do a limerick???
So, okay, all of us baby boomers are getting older and headed for retirement, and there's plenty of financial and physical advice and help. But there's not much out there about what to actually do, how to enjoy your sunset years even if you do have money and health.
Bonsee is a professional certified life coach and she uses these five women she meets during her summers in Nantucket as examples of "positive aging." They're great women. They're funny and happy and have hobbies, volunteer, don't whine and complain. They adjust and adapt.
Bonsee has an ending chapter where she wraps up all the different attributes these women have, but she misses one. They were this way when they were children, teens, married, young parents and middle aged. The question Bonsee doesn't answer is--if you're not plucky and cheery and positive at say, 24 and 42, how does it bode at 62 or 72? I can't imagine a grumpypants can change the day her first SS check gets deposited.
She has a good point, though, about aging positively. If you go into the dining hall of a nursing home, who do you want to talk to? The ones telling a joke or talking about their day. So they get more attention and it's a self fulfilling circle, where they attract happy people, who in turn make them happy and on and on.
If you come to my table in the nursing home we'll have limerick contests! Winner gets lime jello!
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