- 104 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Twilight Time: Aging in Amazement is a reflection on memory, aging, and mortality in the form of a collection of short essays that travels back and forth in time. Kaufman invites the reader to accompany her on a journey of inquiry, from a childhood in Jewish New York in the fifties to an unknown future and back again, always returning to the present moment--its colors, its sounds. Twilight Time avoids any sentimentality or nostalgia about the past, as well as any false certainty about the future.
Kaufman, a retired hospice chaplain, suggests that not knowing is the final frontier. She watches reverentially as her older sister ages and her mother's dying unfolds. She entertains the possibility of other life narratives, but recognizes finally that she has been imprinted by her own past in all its singularity, all its wounds. In Twilight Time, Kaufman shares a glimpse of the crowded canvas of who she has been as she prepares to enter the unknown, letting go of it all. Susie Kaufman practices mindfulness in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hahn.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Permissions
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- No Time like the Present
- Rebbe Nachman in Costa Rica
- Invoking the Ancestors
- Black and White
- Living Arrangements
- Paleolithic Father’s Day
- Going Home
- Acceleration
- Tragedy in the Tropics
- In Tobago
- Coming and Going
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Witness
- Americana
- Not Yet
- A Pebble of Regret
- The Sunny Side of the Street
- Shattered Glass
- On Children
- Minnesota August
- The Empathy Strikes Back
- On Drowning
- Talk to Me
- They Can’t Take That Away from Me
- Trade-In
- Sintra Socks
- Coco Loco
- What Slips through Your Fingers
- The Persistence of Nature
- Less Time, More Space
- Beyond Nostalgia
- Improv in the Subjunctive
- On Another Note
- Just in Case
- End of Day
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