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The final decades of life are both a challenge and a blessing. With clarity, humor and wisdom, Love and Time explores the preparation needed to make our final years a time of culmination of life rather than stagnation, how to deal with grief from the inevitable losses and debilities that come...

What an audacious concept. A book urging senior citizens to get off their butts and do something to make the world a better place. “But I'm old,” you say, “Let me relax and enjoy my 'Golden Years.' Yes, the world's a mess, but let the younger generations deal with it. It's their world now.” Except it isn't. It's our world, too. And we in the older generation bear responsibility for helping to create the mess.

Life is a journey filled with unpredictable seasons, each bringing unique challenges and opportunities. In Journey into Adulthood, author Richard Matzkin shares insights gathered over 81 years, offering young adults a powerful guide to navigating their transition into adulthood and beyond. Written with warmth and honesty, this book acts as an initiation into a fulfilling life, emphasizing the cultivation of "Noble Character" – qualities like kindness, integrity, patience, and diligence.

The news media is filled with reports of mass shootings, child molestation, road rage, vandalism, sexual harassment, and domestic violence. We instinctively assume that men are the likely perpetrators, and in the vast majority of cases, they are. The incidence of war, rape, crime, torture, genocide, and terrorism are mostly at the hands of men.