Change your perspective about aging. Here is an uplifting view of how life's energies are redirected towards new purpose and happiness, if we accept and claim age as a new release into life. Our culture isn't kind towards age. The dominant drive is to celebrate youth and more of everything while age, we're told, only brings depletion and less. Even as Americans live longer, many consider old age with dread. It's time to challenge perceptions. As the author writes, ?Old-age situations, assumed to announce the end-of-the-road, actually generate fresh life-moves. As we age, we tend to become 'lighter' in more senses than one....Indeed, we may find ourselves catapulted into late-stage 'adventures' the young never dream of.? This is a view of age very different from preconceptions?emancipating, transformative, inspiring, joyful. In five brief chapters, the author takes us from the dawning of new possibilities to the freedom that comes when no company or institution or cause owns you. At last, you are your own and with that comes a tremendous release. Octogenarian author, Philip Weinstein, a retired professor of English, draws not only on his own insights but on the deep wisdom found in writers he taught for decades: Shakespeare, Yeats, Proust, Faulkner, Eliot, Beckett, and many others. Quotations throughout bring additional illumination into the author's own unique discoveries regarding the dramas, and gifts, of old age. Whatever your own life's season, whether you're still in the Spring or deep into life's Winter, here are fresh insights into the human spirit. Readers may nod or smile with recognition or see more clearly what it ahead on their life's journey. Time's Bounty will change the way you think about age.