title: Contemplative Aging: A Way of Being in Later Life
author: Edmund Sherman
description: "People entering this new dimension in their natural life will find reading this book rewarding and it may contribute to an inner peace as they move forward withlife and the aging process. Contemplative Aging: A Way of Being in Later Life can help baby boomers coming of older age reflect on the past, deal in the present, and look forward to a realistic future."--Activities, Adaptation and Aging<br /><br />"In this radiant work, author Edmund Sherman suggests a more spiritual and peaceful way of living in the later years. He takes us on a journey through the timeless literature on contemplative traditions. Drawing on poets, psychologists, philosophers and mystics, he offers a range of contemplative practices to those in their later years." --Aging Horizons Bulletin
zlib_text: > > **SOLDIERS LIVE**
  
  > >  **by Glen Cook**
  
  > >  **The Ninth Chronicle of the Black Company**
  
    
  
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  > >  **1**
  
  > >  **An Abode of Ravens:**  
  >  **When No Men Died**
  
  > > Four years passed and no one died. Not of violence or hazard of the
  > calling, anyway. Otto and Hagop did pass on within days of each other, of
  > natural causes associated with aging, last year. A few weeks ago one Tam
  > Duc, recruit in training, perished of the overconfident exuberance of youth.
  > He fell into a crevasse while he and his lance brothers were riding their
  > blankets down the long slick slope of the Tien Myuen glacier. There were a
  > few others. But not a one by an unfriendly hand.
  
  Four years has to be a record, though not the sort often recalled in these
  Annals.
  
  That much peace is impossible to believe.
  
  Peace that prolonged becomes increasingly seductive.
  
  Many of us are old and tired and retain no youthful fire in the belly. But us
  old farts are not in charge anymore. And though we 