The Measure of My Days
One Woman’s Vivid, Enduring Celebration of Life and Aging
About the book
Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell wrote these pages in her eighties, recording what old age feels like from the inside. She describes feeling severed from her past and at odds with the present, with a body that resists activity while the mind grows more passionate than before. From there she turns to questions that follow people through their whole lives: the struggle to be good, how to keep one's individuality in a mass society, and how suffering, loss and limitation might yield something close to wisdom. The result is both a personal journal and a meditation on aging.
Ryan Holiday found remarkable wisdom in these daily notes by a strong woman near the end of her life, and said it saddened him that most people wait until old age to think about such things.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
The daily notes of a strong but dying woman (born 1883, written in 1968) watching her life slowly leave her and wind to a close. The wisdom in this thing is amazing and the fact that most people have no idea exists–and basically wait until the end of their life to start thinking about all this is very sad to me. Also I love her generation–alive during the time of Wyatt Earp yet lived to see man land on the moon. What an insane period of history.
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