Kamla K. Kapur was born and raised in India and studied in the United States. An award-winning playwright, poet, and author, her writing has been featured in anthologies and journals such as Parabola and The Sun. A former literature professor at Grossmont College, she and her husband divide their time between the remote Indian Himalayas and San Diego, California.
PREFACE The Many Privileges of Aging
1 The Adventure That I Am
2 My Old Age Project
3 What Does It Mean to Be Present?
4 Small Cosmic Dramas
5 The Great Remembering
6 God’s House
7 Allies in the Adventure
8 Ariel
9 Death and Music
10 My Friend Cookie, the Healer
11 The Benefits of Denial
12 Night Sea Journey
13 Stupidity Has a Purpose
14 Memory Is the Root of Wisdom
15 Letting Go
16 Preparing for Death
17 Dance of Kali
18 Mummy, My Mummy
19 Loving Myself
20 Sending Daddy to the Milky Way
21 I Am a Many-Patterned Kaleidoscope
22 Shadows
23 Hanging Out with Kamla
24 Reading, Solitude, Love
25 Entropic Imperative
26 Home
27 What Endearing Fools We Are
28 Living Like a River
29 Learning Love and Softness
30 Leave the Crusty Chrysalis Behind
31 Promises to Myself
32 How We Stay Together
33 Grass Growing Mood
34 Corona Cocoon
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