Home stretch: the art of finishing life well

by Tom Owen-Towle

published in 2008

This book will assist seniors, as well as “juniors”, in balancing the core life pursuits of solitude and quest, joy and service, surrender and legacy.

Ours is increasingly a world of elders. By 2050, the number is projected to grow to almost 2 billion, and, for the first time in human history, our world will have more people 60 and over than children under age 15. There exists a hunger in our current society to engage the difficult yet enlivening challenges of life’s homestretch.