What does the face of aging look like, among writers and creatives?
What might they have to say about their sixtieth, seventieth or even eightieth decades?
These were questions Nan Narboe asked as she compiled the words of writers sharing their experiences of aging.
Nan Narboe is an author, therapist, and trainer who has created a tantalizing and compassionate collective portrait of what aging creatively can look like.
Nan Narboe worked as a psychotherapist and trainer for forty years, and has since transitioned into consulting. Based in Portland, Oregon, she currently specializes in working with entrepreneurs and with people deciding what to do with the rest of their lives. The interplay between individual traits, chronological age, and developmental stage has been a lifelong fascination, the best part of which has been watching her daughter grow up. Nan co-founded L’Auberge, a six-course restaurant that presaged the “local food” movement, and Cascade Valley School, a democratic school inspired by the Sudbury model. She launched her writing apprenticeship at forty by attending the feminist workshop, Flight of the Mind, and sold her first piece a mere twenty-eight years later.
What a gem of a person! There are not enough good words in the world to describe this marvelous human being. She is truly a renaissance woman.
What a lovely acknowledgement!