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On Growing Old Without Growing Cold: Keeping warmth, wonder and usefulness in later years50%
Timeless Wisdom

On Growing Old Without Growing Cold: Keeping warmth, wonder and usefulness in later years

Margaret Ellery · narrated by Adeline Prescott

2026

4h 15m
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You settle in with Adeline Prescott's measured, gentle voice as she guides you through Margaret Ellery's quiet exploration of staying fully alive in your later years. You will learn to notice the small habits that slowly dim your inner fire, the morning practice of real attention, and the simple physical acts, walking, working with your hands, that keep thought and feeling supple. Ellery does not promise transformation. She offers company and clear sight. You hear how curiosity toward younger people can bridge isolation, how usefulness takes new shapes, and how wonder persists when you make room for it. The chapters move like slow conversations on a long porch, unhurried, honest, warmed by lived experience. Let this be the companion that walks beside you into what comes next.

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19 chapters

  1. 1Where These Came From2m
  2. 2Chapter 1: The Fire That Does Not Go Out14m
  3. 3Chapter 2: What Growing Cold Really Means15m
  4. 4Chapter 3: The Quiet Drains16m
  5. 5Chapter 4: The Morning Habit of Looking Out17m
  6. 6Chapter 5: Keeping a Hand in Use14m
  7. 7Chapter 6: The Company of the Young21m
  8. 8Chapter 7: Walking as a Way of Thinking17m
  9. 9Chapter 8: The Kitchen as Hearth14m
  10. 10Chapter 9: Saying What You Saw17m
  11. 11Chapter 10: The Remedy Shelf16m
  12. 12Chapter 11: Letting the Day Have Its Shape16m
  13. 13Chapter 12: What to Carry Forward16m
  14. 14Chapter 13: A Week Built of Small Stones17m
  15. 15Chapter 14: Your Own Quiet Plan13m
  16. 16Chapter 15: When to Knock on the Doctor's Door20m
  17. 17Carrying Them On6m
  18. 18About the Author1m
  19. 19Before You Close the Book2m
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