Sandwiched In

PWPL proudly welcomes author Susie Kaufman to discuss Twilight Time: Aging in Amazement. Her book and focus of her talk is a reflection on memory, aging, and mortality in the form of a collection of short essays that travels back and forth in time. Kaufman invites you to accompany her on her journey of inquiry from a childhood in Jewish New York in the fifties to an unknown future and back again, always returning to the present moment – its colors, its sounds. Twilight Time avoids any sentimentality or nostalgia about the past, as well as any false certainty about the future.

Kaufman, a retired hospice chaplain, suggests that not knowing is the final frontier. She shares a glimpse of the crowded canvas of who she has been as she prepares to meet the unknown, letting go of it all. Susie Kaufman practices mindfulness in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.