In 55 chapters, this book writes about life in a lively and vital way, about life in the later period of life. We – for those who are candidates for aging and for those who are already experiencing it – have the possibility of both vitality and embarrassment in this period of life. My writing on the back of this special book comes to support the spirit of observing life from the perspective of the later years, which is a spirit of challenge, playfulness and meaning instead of the spirit of decline and descent into death that characterized the perception of old age in the past.