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Entertainment and Hobbies Books and Movies New book compiles wisdom from senior citizens
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| Monday, 02 February 2009 15:04 |
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Author Henry Alford spent a year interviewing seniors, which included his mother, for a book that is equal parts travel story, family memoir, and anecdotal character profiles. How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) is Alford's quest to define wisdom and his attempt in trying to capture it in a mosaic of American lives around the country. One of Alford's interviewees was New Hampshire resident 97-year-old Doris Haddock, known as Granny D.  When she was 89 years old, she walked across the country in support of campaign-finance reform. In a recent interview with Reuters, Alford said another element of the book looked at the accomplishments of older people and that part of wisdom came from people re-engaging with their surroundings. "The third part of one's life is potentially as important a time for self-discovery as childhood or middle age, though not everybody takes advantage of it. I was amazed when I found all these examples of stuff people had done after the age of 70," Alford said. © Copyright |
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