- Paperback: 346 pages
- Publisher: BPS Books (16 July 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 192664526X
- ISBN-13: 978-1926645261
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,196,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Precise, practical, poetic, and powerful
These are just four of many superlatives that could be used to describe — but which would only begin to describe — the artistry and crystal-clear insight of Jon Barnard Gilmore's new book. For this is a book like no other, on a subject that millions of people will be "registering" to study as our population ages.
As will prove true for so many readers, retirement for Gilmore has led to a series of surprises, by turns sobering and joyful.
As a professor of Psychology, with many more years of teaching ahead of him before he would turn sixty-five, Gilmore was surprised to find himself falling in love with the Kootenay region of British Columbia following a chance encounter during a long drive to California. He was also surprised, a few years later, to find himself bidding on property there and then applying for early retirement from his teaching position.
Kaslo, B.C., was where he thought he would live year-round. But divorce — a further surprise — and a new relationship have meant that he now divides his time between two regions of startling beauty: his B.C. home and the Caledon hills near Toronto.
Perhaps most surprising to Gilmore has been his discovery that the real work of any life begins when we retire: that retiring consists of a series of personal and relational tasks through which we might achieve a better understanding of ourselves, and of our past, present, and future.
Jon Barnard Gilmore, Ph.D., is also the author of In Cold Pursuit: Medical Intelligence Examines the Common Cold. Prior to retiring he taught Introductory Psychology to thousands of appreciative students at the University of Toronto. In 1987 he was named Canadian Professor of the Year. He was educated at Stanford and Yale Universities and for thirty years he maintained a private clinical practice.
These are just four of many superlatives that could be used to describe — but which would only begin to describe — the artistry and crystal-clear insight of Jon Barnard Gilmore's new book. For this is a book like no other, on a subject that millions of people will be "registering" to study as our population ages.
As will prove true for so many readers, retirement for Gilmore has led to a series of surprises, by turns sobering and joyful.
As a professor of Psychology, with many more years of teaching ahead of him before he would turn sixty-five, Gilmore was surprised to find himself falling in love with the Kootenay region of British Columbia following a chance encounter during a long drive to California. He was also surprised, a few years later, to find himself bidding on property there and then applying for early retirement from his teaching position.
Kaslo, B.C., was where he thought he would live year-round. But divorce — a further surprise — and a new relationship have meant that he now divides his time between two regions of startling beauty: his B.C. home and the Caledon hills near Toronto.
Perhaps most surprising to Gilmore has been his discovery that the real work of any life begins when we retire: that retiring consists of a series of personal and relational tasks through which we might achieve a better understanding of ourselves, and of our past, present, and future.
Jon Barnard Gilmore, Ph.D., is also the author of In Cold Pursuit: Medical Intelligence Examines the Common Cold. Prior to retiring he taught Introductory Psychology to thousands of appreciative students at the University of Toronto. In 1987 he was named Canadian Professor of the Year. He was educated at Stanford and Yale Universities and for thirty years he maintained a private clinical practice.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Thoughtful, funny, beautiful
17 Feb 2011
This is a beautifully written memoir of the experience of moving in retirement to an idyllic town amid lake and mountain, after an academic career. Anecdotes about local life in such a town, personal experiences, good and bad, essays about qualities in life to savour: all written in sensitive, beautiful prose that speaks to all who have met change in life's trajectories.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A must read Baby Boomers
16 Feb 2011
This book is an easy Leacock like read. It educates the reader as to the realization that life is a series of beginnings. There are inspirational words about perception and considerable deliberation given to thought provoking psychological issues. A must read for all baby boomers and for all those who are fast approaching retirement. Enjoy! Laugh! Think! You will!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Retirement Surprises
15 Nov 2010
Via a delightful collection of anecdotes about small town rural life, Gilmore shows how retirement is rather more than a big city college professor might have expected. He shows us the broader dimensions of life that open up once we get past the 'getting and spending' days that Wordsworth mentioned in his sonnet. You know the one. It begins: "The worlds is too much with us..."
Retired, winding down and slowly fading away? No way. Rather better to say, "Just getting underway." All that good stuff that we never had time for before is still waiting. Retirement is the best condition I have ever been in and this little book is of considerable value for comparison and contrast with my own retirement experiences. It merits consideration as a companion for those who plan to be stranded on a desert isle. Not that I am expecting such adversity anymore, but I'll keep it handy just in case.
008, Stratford, Ontario
Retired, winding down and slowly fading away? No way. Rather better to say, "Just getting underway." All that good stuff that we never had time for before is still waiting. Retirement is the best condition I have ever been in and this little book is of considerable value for comparison and contrast with my own retirement experiences. It merits consideration as a companion for those who plan to be stranded on a desert isle. Not that I am expecting such adversity anymore, but I'll keep it handy just in case.
008, Stratford, Ontario
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