Gifts of Age/Book Cards/03848

Painter, Charlotte

Valois, Pamela

Chronicle Books LLC.

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 the Gifts 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.

Gifts of Age: 32 Remarkable Women

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Painter and Valois have combined their impressive talents to present intimate glimpses into the lives of 36 remarkable women, each of whom has discovered in maturity the opportunity to explore new and exciting challenges. 36 photos.

Gifts of Age:Book of Days

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

<p>When Pam Valois, a young photographer, met Jacomena Maybeck in 1979, she saw the woman she wanted to be in her own later years. Tarring roofs and splitting logs into her eighties, Jackie presided over the legacy of Bernard Maybeck and his clan on Berkeley’s legendary Nut Hill. The friendship between the two women led to a best-selling book—Gifts of Age, a treasury of stories about successful aging. Blooming in Winter is an intimate portrait of Jackie that gives us a paradigm for living exuberantly until the very end.</p>

Blooming in Winter: The Story of a Remarkable Twentieth-Century Woman

Religion & Spirituality

She Writes Press

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