How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People – Henry Alford
Who knows more about how to live than people who have been doing it the longest?
In How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth), humorist and journalist Henry Alford sets out to find out. Wondering whether age really brings wisdom, he interviews a wide range of older people, some famous and many not, to ask what they have learned about life, love, work, loss and growing old.
Alford’s conversations take him in unexpected directions. He talks with writers, artists, activists and ordinary people in their seventies, eighties and nineties, and explores ideas about wisdom from philosophy and psychology. At the heart of the book is a deeply personal story: his own mother and stepfather, who decided to divorce after decades of marriage, giving Alford a front-row seat to the challenges and surprises of later life.
Funny, warm and often poignant, the book combines lively reporting with thoughtful reflection, examining qualities such as resilience, humor, adaptability, generosity and the ability to let go. Alford finds that wisdom often shows up in surprising forms, and that older people have much to teach us about living well at any age.
How to Live is an entertaining and touching read for anyone curious about aging, family relationships and the timeless question of what makes a good life.
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