Recommended Reading

Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose | Richard Leider & David Shapiro (2004)

From Age-ing to Sage-ing | Zalman Schacter-Shalomi with Ronald Miller (1997)

The Great Turning | David Korten (2006)

The Merlin Factor: Keys to the Corporate Kingdom | Charles E. Smith (1995)

Something to Live For: Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life | Richard Leider & David Shapiro (2008)

The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk and Adventure in the 25 Years after 50 | Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2009)

The World Café: Shaping Our Future through Conversations that Matter | Juanita Brown & David Isaacs (2005)

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as if It Were Your Last | Stephen Levine (1998)

“Wisdom is not knowledge per se, nor a set of rules. It is not an ability or skill. And it is definitely not a thing we can acquire or even measure. Wisdom is simply a way of being in the world. It is a context for living.”
—Jim Selman

“It is more crucial today than ever that the generations know and understand each other. When the young and old feel their differences are so immense that they can’t communicate, the dialogue between the past and future—a dialogue that is essential to a humane and civilized world—is cut off.”
—Maggie Kuhn
Founder of The Gray Panthers