The Measure of My Days: One Woman's Vivid, Enduring Celebration of Life and Aging

by Florida Scott-Maxwell and Florida Scott Maxwell

Book Overview

Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell explores the unique predicament of one's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140051643
• Release Date: April 1979
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.4" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Thoughtful, Reflective and Deep

What a pleasure it was to read this book! Dr. Scott-Maxwell's book brings the aging process into consciousness, with seminal thoughts reflecting on Jungian ideas (opposite natures, inner-outer experiences, differentiation, the unconscious and God). The book is written in a format of a personal, meditation essays. Noted author Alice Walker said in an NPR interview (April 26th, 2004), that the grandmother spirit, the "cinder grandmother", is missing in our culture. Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell is a voice that should be heard.

In the Final Analysis

If there were only one book i could take with me on the last leg of this earthly journey, it would be this one. This is an unflinching view of life from the vantage point of very old age.