Our next Candlelight Chat is this Sunday: Spend an hour learning how to understand midlife and beyond.
Please join us! This SUNDAY, from 1-2 pm EST, on Zoom.
Dear all,
Not long ago, I sent you a Kindred Letter about entering the Second Half of Life. That letter touched a HUGE nerve. So I knew that we had to go deeper with this topic.
That’s why I’m so excited to let you know that our next Candlelight Chat will be this Sunday at 1pm ET, on Zoom - and our special guest will be none other than Chip Conley, the celebrated author of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age and the owner and host of the Modern Elder Academy (MEA).
If you’d like to join us for the Candlelight Chat, but are not yet a paid member of The Quiet Life, you can subscribe here, or email us for a scholarship if needed. No one should decline to join for reasons of financial challenge.
Please mark your calendars! This event will be on Zoom, and we’ll send out log-in instructions this Saturday (tomorrow).
We’ll also send out a recording, a week after the event, to all paid and scholarship subscribers.
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Here’s what to expect this Sunday:
As always, we’ll begin by lighting our candles, and with a benediction from me.
Then I’ll interview Chip, after which you’ll have a chance to interact with him directly, either in writing or live — your choice.
Here are some of the questions we’ll discuss:
* Why does midlife have such a bad reputation?
* Do people truly get wiser with age?
* Do people get less ambitious with age?
* What Chip has learned after writing three books on midlife?
* Do people grow more introverted as they age?
* and much more.
I’m very excited about this Candlelight Chat, and really hope you’ll join us.
I'm very excited about this upcoming session! Although now beyond midlife, I still feel that there is so much to explore about this topic... and life beyond midlife to the sacred elder years. Uncharted territory indeed. I feel the true bittersweetness of this time of life more viscerally and deeply, feel the sweetness of the last drops of wine in the bottle, feel the sacredness of each breath never knowing when the last one will be, but now definitely aware that there will be a last one. I feel more deeply, cry more frequently, am more present to each moment, embrace my solitude, appreciate the boundaries more that I didn't feel the right to set when younger, walk away much more easily from that which does not nourish, reach out to strangers in a way that sometimes connects in surprisingly deep ways, embrace all the feelings.. even if they knock me down for a while, invite grief to sit beside me as it doesn't seem to be going anywhere these days, and marvel at the internal rage and passion that is still so very much there even if not seen by others.
Thank you so much for bringing this rich subject to our next Candlelight!
Oh I will definitely be there for this one! Midlife sneaks up on you and no one is really prepared for what it is you are supposed to do with the time.