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Writer Charlotte Painter and artist/photographer Pamela Valois have combined their impressive talents to present these intimate glimpses into the lives of thirty-two remarkable women, each of whom has discovered in maturity the opportunity of exploring new and exciting challenges. These are theGifts of Age: the time, the freedom, and hopefully the wisdom to develop creative new images of oneself and one's place in the complexities of a long life. All of the women in this book are more than sixty-five years of age, and included are such well-known personalities as Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, Joan Baez Senior, and Louise M. Davies. No two have followed the same path, but each has been successful in achieving some new, frequently unanticipated distinction in her latter years.Gifts of Age is a fascinating insight into just how productive one's extended life can be, and inspiration for anyone who believes that the creative talent for living need not diminish with the passage of years.… (altro)
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I’ve had this “dancers of the third age” poster for a long time. It reminds me of my maternal grandmother because it depicts older women in ballet poses. I’ve always found great wisdom in how she viewed aging and lived her life. After two husbands who died, she bucked societal expectations of her culture and time, and had a long-standing relationship with a younger man (he was in his late 50s!lol), would ride her bike all over town (until she died in her 90s), would wear all the “good stuff” because “you can’t take it with you,” and any given Wednesday was a good as any other day to use the good china and expensive perfume. She was a remarkable no-nonsense woman with a huge heart...a social worker without a degree!
I miss her greatly, and this book reminded me of her. These are more “refined” ladies (lol), but the premise is the same. Old age does not have to diminish our souls and with the freedom of “old age” also comes the opportunity to explore other interests or deepen the interests we have.
This book, “Gifts of Age” was a collaboration between Charlotte Painter and photographer Pamela Valois. It’s out of print. It contains short “glimpses” into the lives of 32 inspiring women to include Julia Childs and Joan Baez Senior.
It’s not inclusive of people of color or other cultures, but I still found reading about the lives of women born in the late 1800 and early 1900s,and how they adjusted to aging, interesting. ( )
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Hear her, therefore, as the latest voice; The intervening generations (drifting On tides of fancystill), ignore. --Robert Graves, from "The Great-Grandmother"
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Java is the birthplace of Jacomena Maybeck, where her father was a sugar-refinery chemist; but when she was seven months old, her Dutch family went back to Holland.
Preface: I was touched by these photographs when Pamela Valois showed them to me, as much by Pamela herself as by the pictures.
A Note by Photographer: Several years ago I read an essay by Elizabeth Janeway, "Breaking the Age Barrier<" in which she speaks of our need to overcome the stereotypes of aging.
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Mother's Day is the project closest to my heart right now!
[A Note by the Photographer] It goes without saying that not all of us will gain admission to that room, but perhaps our chances can be increased if we free ourselves from stereotypical thinking and actually get to know older people we admire.
Writer Charlotte Painter and artist/photographer Pamela Valois have combined their impressive talents to present these intimate glimpses into the lives of thirty-two remarkable women, each of whom has discovered in maturity the opportunity of exploring new and exciting challenges. These are theGifts of Age: the time, the freedom, and hopefully the wisdom to develop creative new images of oneself and one's place in the complexities of a long life. All of the women in this book are more than sixty-five years of age, and included are such well-known personalities as Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, Joan Baez Senior, and Louise M. Davies. No two have followed the same path, but each has been successful in achieving some new, frequently unanticipated distinction in her latter years.Gifts of Age is a fascinating insight into just how productive one's extended life can be, and inspiration for anyone who believes that the creative talent for living need not diminish with the passage of years.
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I miss her greatly, and this book reminded me of her. These are more “refined” ladies (lol), but the premise is the same. Old age does not have to diminish our souls and with the freedom of “old age” also comes the opportunity to explore other interests or deepen the interests we have.
This book, “Gifts of Age” was a collaboration between Charlotte Painter and photographer Pamela Valois. It’s out of print. It contains short “glimpses” into the lives of 32 inspiring women to include Julia Childs and Joan Baez Senior.
It’s not inclusive of people of color or other cultures, but I still found reading about the lives of women born in the late 1800 and early 1900s,and how they adjusted to aging, interesting. (