Title::
Making the best of what's left : when we're too old to get the chairs reupholstered
First Author value, for Searching:
Viorst, Judith, author. 1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpPGJqD3YrtxPTkJD9MT3
Format:
Book
Abstract:
Throughout her career, Judith Viorst has written numerous books reflecting on life as she ages. Now in her nineties, she shares her experiences in life's "final fifth" in this collection of poetry and essays. On her retirement community, she notes that it is "wonderful, marvelous, swell--good as gold. Except for this one little problem: everyone's old." On her late husband (who died of COVID-19 in 2022), she pleads: "I need you fixing our damn circuit breakers. I need you! Could you please stop being dead?" With humor and vulnerability, Viorst invites readers to dance with her between grief and levity and to enjoy the time we have left to share.
Contents:
A valentine for the extremely married -- Home -- Our sensible safe retirement community -- Old -- Losing it -- What's left -- Grow old along with me and my home health aide -- A little while -- Stop being dead -- Counting the dead -- What else I remember -- Afterward -- An afterlife -- Happiness -- Getting out the vote -- Loneliness -- A Jewish widow's country-western love song -- Community -- Princess Margaret, Pearl Harbor, "daffodils," etc. -- Wisdom -- Prescription --
Subject:
| Older people. |
| Older people -- Poetry. |
| Older people -- Conduct of life. |
| Older people -- Conduct of life -- Poetry. |
| Old age. |
| Old age -- Poetry. |
| Old age -- Psychological aspects. |
| Old age -- Psychological aspects -- Poetry. |
| Aging. |
| Aging -- Poetry. |
| Aging -- Psychological aspects. |
| Aging -- Psychological aspects -- Poetry. |
| Older people -- Psychology. |
| Vieillesse. |
| Personnes âgées -- Psychologie. |
| Vieillissement. |
| Vieillissement -- Aspect psychologique. |
| Vieillesse -- Poésie. |
| Vieillissement -- Poésie. |
| Vieillissement -- Aspect psychologique -- Poésie. |
| Personnes âgées -- Psychologie -- Poésie. |
| FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Later Years. |
| SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational. |
| BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs. |
| humor. |
| poetry. |
| Humorous poetry. |
| Essays. |
| Poésie humoristique. |
| Humour. |
| Poésie. |
Summary:
Throughout her career, Judith Viorst has written numerous books reflecting on life as she ages. Now in her nineties, she shares her experiences in life's "final fifth" in this collection of poetry and essays. On her retirement community, she notes that it is "wonderful, marvelous, swell--good as gold. Except for this one little problem: everyone's old." On her late husband (who died of COVID-19 in 2022), she pleads: "I need you fixing our damn circuit breakers. I need you! Could you please stop being dead?" With humor and vulnerability, Viorst invites readers to dance with her between grief and levity and to enjoy the time we have left to share.
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