Susie Kaufman

Twilight Time (eBook, ePUB)

Aging in Amazement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781532680878
• Artikelnr.: 59539355

Autorenporträt

Susie Kaufman is a retired hospice chaplain and spiritual director. Her writing has appeared in the journal Presence as well as in Lilith and America magazines and the anthology Writing Fire (2017). Kaufman's blog seventysomething (susiekaufman.blogspot.com) appeared biweekly from 2015-2017. She can be contacted at [e-mail]. "For those of us just past 20, I mean 30, err 40, well 50, okay 60, and ahem, beyond, they say this is a time of reflection of all the years that have made up our lives. Susie Kaufman, whom I have had the pleasure of knowing since way back when, has taken on the task with an eye and a heart that seems to open wider each time she sits down to write about whatever subject comes up, be it memory or moment, in expansion or distillation, her childhood, childhood itself, in humility and in awe. The name of her book is Twilight Time: Aging in Amazement, and the exquisitely titled essays in it are really two-page gems, narratives crystallized into bite-sized recognitions of, as she puts it, "days that are nothing more than the lifespan of a firefly writ large. . . but while I'm here I am awed by what I have seen and what I continue to see." As retired hospice chaplain, as daughter, sister, mother, wife, grandma, as bearing witness to her own childhood days on Manhattan's Upper West Side to visiting her grandchildren way out in Minnesota, she brings her awe right along with her." - Matt Tannenbaum - The Bookstore in Lenox