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Touching Life's Later Years with
Nobility and Intellectual Excitement

In ever greater numbers, we are aging beyond the values that created the urban–industrial world. That fact begins with the boomers, but it will roll forward into generations to come... Which means that every institution in our society will be transformed as its population drifts further and further from competitive individualism, military–industrial bravado, and the careerist rat race. It is as if the freeways of the world will one day soon begin to close down, starting with the fast lane and finally turning into pastures and meadows.
 

 
Theodore Roszak is the author of 15 works of nonfiction, including The Making of a Counter Culture, Person/Planet, and The Voice of the Earth and five novels.

With a limited window of time, Northern Europeans have already started creating exciting alternatives that include a multi-generational approach to senior housing. Instead of concentrating exclusively on facilities for the elderly, the focus is on strengthening neighborhoods. The results so far are a variety of senior-friendly developments that also embrace other generations...

 
Dorit Fromm is an architect who writes, researches, and consults on innovative communities, design, and aging. She is the author of Collaborative Communities: Cohousing, Central Living and Other New Forms of Housing,

An interview with Charles Durrett

Senior Cohousing: The First Three Years

One can argue that cohousing has already affected much of the housing market—for example, the design elements in multi-family affordable housing that intentionally encourage neighbor interaction. Or, another example, single-family neighborhoods, where the residents of a street can vote to close the whole street to cars, create kid-play areas in the middle, and require people to park at both ends. A change like that vastly alters the behavior of residents and how well they know each other...
 

Architect Charles Durrett has designed over 30 cohousing communities in North America and has consulted on many more around the world. This wide-ranging interview by Guest Editor Raines Cohen touches all the bases.

Awhile back, a group of friends and I discussed the amount of political and social activity necessary to support the environment, the earth and her people. We looked at all the activities required to take an active role in guarding the health of the planet and speaking up for her people. Who would write letters? Who would write emails? Who would organize us to voice our opinion and influence lawmakers closer to home?...
 

 
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is the author of the seminal book on aging, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older.

The people were rapidly approaching starvation in the midst of plenty. Then, as if prompted by a collective dream, they started to feed one another. The lesson was clear. If one only tended the circle of oneself, emptiness grew. If each fed a neighbor, then — in this expanded circle — all would be well...
 

 
Author-philosopher John G. Sullivan is a member of the Second Journey Board of Directors and author of Living Large: Transformative Work at the Intersection of Ethics and Spirituality.

Second Journey Book Page editor, Barbara Kammerlohr, reviews recent two books — Leisureville and A Place Called Canterbury — that are required reading for any “young” retiree tempted to leave their home of many years for the promise of a life-time of resort living.