Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose

abandonment, calling, 69

About Schmidt, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson), 71, 77

About Schmidt (Begley), 107–108

action, purposeful, 123–124

Africa, experiencing, 25, 29

age

acquiring new skills, 92–93

identity, 85

Age Wave (Dyshtwald), 108

aging

gain vs. loss in, 104–105

process of, 21

responses to, 118–119

vital, 3–5, 101, 135

vs. becoming a new elder, 24

Aging Well (Vaillant), 78

Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays with Morrie, An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 34–35

aliveness, key to, 73

Allen, Woody, 93

Alzheimer's, dealing with, 103–106

America the Wise (Roszak), 107

ancestors, communicating with, 120

anticipation, hope, 98–99

appearance, youthful, 80–82

Aristotle, 25

Ashtanga Research Center, 72

awards, Greatest Thinker in America, 36