“An exquisitely heart-felt meditation on the paradoxes of love and death, devotion and despair.” -Carol Orsborn, PhD, Author of The Making of an Old Soul: Aging As The Fulfillment Of Life’s Promise
From Richard Matzkin, an award-winning author on aging and relationships, Love and Time is a soul-penetrating, poetic, and raw examination of “The Winter of Life”, filled with poignant anecdotes, poems across cultural and wisdom traditions, and images of his own sculptures, as the author enters his eightieth decade.
The final decades of life are both a challenge and a blessing. With clarity, humor and wisdom, Love and Time explores the preparation needed to make our final years a time of culmination of life rather than stagnation, how to deal with grief from the inevitable losses and debilities that come with aging, whether romance and sexuality endure after all these years, how to find beauty in an aging face and body, confronting our own and our loved one's death, and so much more.
Readers will find:
- Contemplations on impermanence and letting go
- Observations on love, and everyday examples of the expression of kindness
- Recognition of the gifts of old age, like the gift of perspective, the gift of boredom, the gift of surrender, and more
- The stages of maturing love, from honeymoon to conscious commitment
- The possibility of aliveness, sensuality and passion into late old age
- Inner tasks that will help to take some of the chill out of Winter
- And so much more
In equal measure heartening and devastating, Love and Time will reach in and squeeze your heart muscle, every page filled with gentle guidance and reflections on living, loving, and dying well.
This book is for:
- Baby boomers
- People in mid life
- Those interested in the spiritual aspects of aging
- Relationship coaches
- People dating and having late-life relationships
- People of all ages who want to prepare to have a fruitful Winter of their Life
"Love and Time is a book I’ve been waiting for, not like any other book on aging I’ve read...A voice of lived experience, rendered thoughtfully, profoundly, provocatively. Indispensable." Harry R. Moody, PhD, Author of over 100 scholarly books and articles on aging and former VP of AARP
"A wonderful and unique book. A series of brief but profound contemplations on the twin mysteries of love and time, as lived by one man with the heart of an artist and the soul of a poet. Take time to savor it." Connie Zweig, Ph.D., Author of The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul
“A deeply nourishing feast of information, inspiration, and hard-earned insights for those of us who are sincerely committed to the process of spiritual maturation. A powerful and creative blend of personal stories, classical wisdom teachings, visual art, well-chosen quotations, and straightforward honesty about the realities inherent in the aging process...I strongly encourage you to accept Richard’s invitation and to trust that doing so will teach you a great deal about living fully and loving well.” - David Chernikoff, Author of Life, Part Two - Seven Keys to Awakening with Purpose and Joy as You Age
"An earnest guide to making the best of the final years of life." - Kirkus Reviews
"Now at eighty, [Richard Matzkin] shares everything he knows about aging, relationships, love, and life. He uses stories to share valuable lessons and insights that he has gained over the years. He reminds readers of the brevity of life, why it's important to make each minute count, the joys of love and family, and how to maintain good health." - San Francisco Book Review, 5/5 Stars
Richard Matzkin MA has a magnificent, four-decade long relationship with his wife, Alice. He is an award-winning author of books on aging, relationships and men's issues. He is a former men's group leader, director of a domestic violence program, meditation teacher and program director of a psychiatric hospital. He is also an accomplished sculptor and jazz drummer. He lives with Alice and four chickens on an acre at the end of a road in the hills above the small hamlet of Ojai, California
