The Spiral of the Seasons: Welcoming the Gifts of Later Life

In this brief, poetic book, philosopher John Sullivan suggests how we might re-envision the second half of life as a time of new possibilities for receiving, releasing, and remembering who we truly are at our deepest level. Sullivan looks at how we may rethink retirement so as to receive: ● Spring’s gifts of living in “beginner’s mind,” ● Summer’s gifts of cultivating care for the community of all our kin, ● Autumn’s gifts of releasing from all that hinders us still, and ● Winter’s gifts of deep listening and alignment with more subtle currents already at work in our world. The book is gentle and compassionate, practical and persuasive, lyrical and life-enhancing. “I will be buying a lot of copies of this book, and I hope that it spreads far and wide, to help all of us understand the simple lessons of aging with arms stretched wide in welcome.” — Sarah Susanka, author of The Not So Big Life