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A CALL TO WISE ELDERS
Leaving A Legacy Of Goodness For Future Generations
by Richard Matzkin
“This book is not only a call to action, it is an affirmation that old age can be a life stage with meaning and purpose of its own.” —Carol Orsborn, PhD
“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.
We're not too old and it's not too late.
In this timely book, author Richard Matzkin shows how those in the elder generation can be of service and leave a legacy of goodness through their wise words, their beneficial actions, and their wholesome example. The reader will find valuable information and practical suggestions that can help elders define and bring their legacy into reality.
LOVING PROMISES
The Master Class For Creating Magnificent Relationship
by Richard Matzkin
In this unique inquiry into the most profound incarnation of love, author Richard Matzkin looked to his extraordinary, three-decade-long marriage to Alice as a living laboratory to research the elements that comprise a truly loving, magnificent partnership. As a result, he discovered thirty-nine Loving Promises statements of intention you pledge to yourself, not your partner, that are the behavioral components of deep, abiding love.
These Promises are a profound path to transforming even a good relationship into a magnificent one.
THE ART OF AGING
Celebrating the Authentic Aging Self
by Alice & Richard Matzkin
In their award-winning book, The Art of Aging, painter Alice Matzkin and sculptor Richard Matzkin share the wisdom of elder mentors to look for the positive side of growing older and coming to accept and appreciate their aging.
Throughout this beautiful and touching book, the couple explores the experience of aging through their paintings, sculptures and writings. In a series of projects that confront their fear and curiosity about growing old, they examine physical changes, sensuality and relationships, aging parents, spirituality, and death. Drawing on their personal experiences and the wisdom of older mentors, they conclude that the elder years can be a time of ripening and harvest rather than stagnation and despair. Their art features well-known people such as feminist Betty Friedan and potter Beatrice Wood, friends, neighbors, relatives, and themselves. Both artists find a source of creativity in the older nude body. This profusely illustrated book contains a wealth of inspiration, especially for those about to enter their later years.
JOURNEY INTO ADULTHOOD
A Young Person's Initiation To Navigate The Seasons Of Their Life.
by Richard Matzkin
This book is a "Bird's Eye View" for young people, late teens to young adult, as to what they might expect over the course of their lifetime. It compares the stages of life to the seasons of the year, and contains wise advice from an elder for living a fruitful, beneficial and joy filled life. "This the book I wish I had read when I was young."
LOVE AND TIME
Embracing Change, Growth And Mature Relationships In The Winter Of Life.
by Richard Matzkin
Love and time – two of the most important aspects of human existence. Over time, as we age and mature, our love matures and ripens. This book explores, from many different angles, the powerful influence of the passage of time on a person’s life and relationships.
“LOVE and TIME is unlike any other book on aging I have read. The voice of lived experience, rendered thoughtfully, profoundly, provocatively. Really important. Indispensable”. – Harry R. Moody PhD
“A wonderful and unique book. A profound contemplation on the twin mysteries of love and time, as lived by a man with the heart of an artist and the soul of a poet”. – Connie Zweig PhD
“I have never read a book like LOVE and TIME. It gave me a visceral experience of what it can mean to be fully, passionately present to all the painful losses and shining gifts that accompany this precious stage of life.” – Ron Pevny MA
“There is a love story woven into the pages that is so deep and passionate, it would make even younger aspire to some day experience the greatest joy of all; growing old together." – Carol Orsborn PhD
MANIFESTO
A Call For Men To Become Warriors Of Kindness
by Richard Matzkin
Nightly, the news media carries reports of mass shootings, child molestation, road rage, vandalism, sexual harassment, and domestic violence. People 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 is mainly at the hands of men. Though women are certainly not blameless, the reality is that a far more significant amount of the evil, hurtful and unloving actions in the world are committed by men—men who are not in touch with their hearts.
Matzkin believes it's time men open their eyes, realize their responsibility, and do something about it. Men are colluding by maintaining silence in the face of malicious actions and not protesting. Men remain part of the problem by not doing all they can to open themselves to love.
BECOMING LOVE-able
How A Man Can Grow To Be A More Loving Partner
by Richard Matzkin
Richard Matzkin, an award-winning author of three books, wrote this book from the male perspective. Men process information differently than women, so the book’s ideas are delivered in a way men understand, short, meaty chapters, without case histories, dialog, or written exercises. There is no fluff, just concrete, specific, and goal-oriented ideas since most men tend to be tuned to action. The book lays out the raw truth about love from the male point of view. This kind of love is distinctly masculine, not New Age nor the old model of male dominance. Matzkin’s approach invites the man, straight or gay, to show his masculine core and ask his partner to show up with her full feminine power.