Happiness Is A Choice You Make: Lessons From A Year Among The Oldest Old by John Leland

Monday, May 15 through Friday, May 26, 2023. Read by Baron Kelly.

In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New York Times to meet members of America’s fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise.

(Sarah Crichton Books; ISBN-10: 0374168180)

Theme: “Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World”, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole; Facing Future