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Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders
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Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders (1999) (edit title/settings)

by Mary Pipher (Author) (edit contributors)

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Mary Pipher's phenomenal New York Times bestseller-a book about us and our parents... "<Pipher> ventures into communities and then returns to explain their truths and ways of being to the rest of us in clear, clean English. Totally accessible...<Another Country> is a... read more

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  • “The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”
  • “George knows the great secrets of life: Find good work and people to love, focus on the positives, and appreciate small things.”
  • “Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.”
    William Stafford "Ask Me"
  • “Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves down. Let the cricket take up chafing as a woman takes up her needles and her yarn. Let evening come. Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned in long grass. Let stars appear and the moon disclose her silver horn. Let the fox go back to its sandy den. Let the wind die down. Let the shed go black inside. let evening come. To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop in the oats, to the air in the lung let evening come. Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.”
    Jane Kenyon "Let Evening Come"
  • “We cannot help the birds of sadness flying over our heads, but we need not let them build nests in our hair.”
    Chinese saying quoted by Helen Nearing in "Loving & Leaving the Good Life"
  • “Sally's Surprise Muffins: 2 Apples, grated + Juice & grated rind of 1 orange + 2 small ripe bananas, mashed + 1 cup raisins + 12 dried apricots, cut in small pieces + 1/2 c pecans + 1 cup zucchini, grated + 5 T oatmeal + 6 T flour + 1 T wheat germ + 1 T oat bran + 1/8 t each allspice, apple pie seasoning, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, mace, nutmeg & pumpkin pie spice + 4 T white sugar + 3 T brown sugar + 1 egg + 1 T baking powder (Substitue other fruits, flours & liquids when you feel like it. Blend everything together and, if it is too think, add a little cold coffee. Bake in greased muffin tine for 20 - 25 minutes at 350 degrees.)”
    Sally Gordon (age 90)
  • “Do you not see how necessary world of pain and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
    John Keats
  • “You don't give back to the same people who give to you. Not at all. You give to different people and they in turn will give to someone entirely different. Not you. That's the sloppy economy of gift & love.”
    Lorrie Moore "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?"
  • “As I age, all my decisions are about time. When I turned fifty, I invented a mnemonic device to help me make good decisions about time. I needed five things in my life: respect, relationships, results, relaxation, and realization. Since then, I have tried to use the Five R's to budget my time. When I have choices to make, I ask, "Will this project bring me what I want? Will this decision make me more relaxed or respected? Will it bring results in the culture or for those I Love?"”
    Mary Pipher

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THE METAPHOR OF AGING AND DEATH AS VISITING ANOTHER country is at least 1,500 years old.

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  1. Mary Pipher (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 1573221295
Page Count: 328

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