Ordinary Wisdom: Biographical Aging and the Journey of Life

by Gary Kenyon and William Lowell Randall

Through the lenses of three time-honored metaphors for thinking about life - life as story, life as journey, and life as adventure - William Randall and Gary Kenyon see wisdom not as an unattainable ideal nor as the sole province of experts or educators, geniuses, therapists, or saints. Rather, the see it as potentially within reach of everyone, not as a commodity but as a quality of life; as a matter of being, not of having. Insofar as everyone of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098111265X
• ISBN13: 9780981112657
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Centre for Digital Scholarship, University of
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"