Toward the end of her life, a woman turns back the clock by performing the goofy ballet of her youth.

A therapist discovers what it means to be fully present, even in the face of the terrifying prospect of a declining mind.

A sexagenarian contemplates the sobering knowledge that she’s got “a tiny little future and a great big past.”

Anticipating endings may encourage us to grasp the present with greater vitality.

It’s never too late to change your story

A daughter marvels as her mother goes from grief to an exuberant rebirth.

Our heads may tell us that we need to embrace inevitable changes as we grow older, but our hearts often tell a different story.

A new retiree discovers the elusive secret of the endless present.

There’s something about healing from the deep emotional suffering that feels like death and rebirth—not the quick kind that some claim to receive in religious conversion. It’s the kind that asks us to be open to changing our contract with life in the most fundamental way.

A man entering his sixties discovers some peculiar markers that signal a retreat from old oppositional habits.