Dancing with the Muse in Old Age: An Evening With Priscilla Long

Folio is delighted to invite you to an in-person reception and evening with Seattle author and poet, Priscilla Long, celebrating the launch of her new book Dancing with the Muse in Old Age.

Dancing with the Muse in Old Age is a book about thriving in old age. While focusing on creative engagement, it is for everyone who is aging. It reflects the new ways of looking at old age as a potentially dynamic, happy, and productive time. It reviews the science on aging that shows that negative views of aging can actually cause decline. The book opposes ageism and reports the evidence that old age can be a time of great happiness. It challenges the widespread notion that “peak ages of creativity” are 39 to 42. It challenges the notion that the burgeoning number of elders, the so-called “gray tsunami,” will drag down the economy (in fact, we are…