It’s simply not true! Your aging does not mandate rounds of golf and martinis, while staying out of the way of progress. Loss does not have to be the most salient aspect of aging. If you allow the years to be instructive, valuable insight can be passed on. As you are not so preoccupied with achieving worldly pursuits, your inner world becomes more accessible. What you have learned and what you can teach become unequivocal. This text offers a touching and edifying portrayal of the author being mentored into elderhood. He is introduced to elderhood with its appropriate trials and ordeals. The Power of Being becomes a new way to see himself and life, releasing him from the need to prove something. My Days with Emma – A Soulful Path to Elderhood offers readers a blueprint for being a valued resource while aging. Find out how your maturity can be a worthy way to serve in the winter of your life, yielding a rich legacy. "Paul Dunion's My Days with Emma: A Soulful Path to Elderhood is not only a wise book; it is a practical guide to the reconfiguring of one's life. He covers the questions, the resistances, and the develop- mental tasks of aging as well as anyone I know. His conversations with Emma, a wise woman senior to him, is both an outer encounter with a woman who has lived the journey and reflected on it, and an inner encounter with his own questioning, anxious, yet resourceful anima. This book is especially practical for men because it asks questions for them that rest still unspoken in their hearts, and for women who want to know more about those strange creatures we call men." - James Hollis, PhD, Jungian Analyst; Author, The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves "In his latest book, My Days with Emma: A Soulful Path to Elder- hood, Dr. Paul Dunion offers us a moving and incredibly soulful ac- counting of the vulnerability of aging and the profound movement into elderhood. He shares with raw candor his own inner explora- tion of the themes of mortality, physical frailty, and the poignant terrain of the initiatory journey and the maturation process of be- friending Mystery. "The book pivots around amazing soaring dialogues between Paul and his mentor Emma that provoke reflection and illumine the important life questions, thresholds, and lessons of this final third of life we are all marching toward. Whether you are young, in mid- life, or entering eldership, these pages will lift you up, challenge you and help you to navigate your inner life going forward." - Amy Elizabeth Fox, Chief Executive Officer, Mobius Executive Leadership "Beyond the "Golden Watch" awaits the rich opportunity to live deeply into the questions that guide a soulful life. In My Days with Emma: A Soulful Path to Elderhood, Dunion heart-fully unites the confluence of heart, maturity and wisdom into a rich inquiry and insight, illuminating a soulful path to elderhood. This book will serve anyone seeking a model and inspiration to age with grace while embracing the unique meanings offered in the second half of life." - Jody Grose, Founder, Return to the Fire My Days with Emma: A Soulful Path to Elderhood holds the trappings of a memoir combined with the spiritual reflection of an inquiring mind, and is a moving account of a mentor relationship between a senior wise woman and a younger man contemplating aging and life. The entry into golden years ideally involves a form of inquiry that re-assesses remaining life and choices made past, present, and future. My Days with Emma solidifies and highlights this inquiry process by following the author's journey into being an elder; reviewing the ambiguities of aging, changing relationships between men and women; and considering the promises and purposes of maturity and growth during later years. Many books have surveyed the spiritual progression of such an effort; but, more so than most, My Days with Emma represents a unique journey not because of its subject, but because of its presentation. Paul Dunion offers a raw inspection of the process of developing compassion, gratitude, and a realization of the special opportunities of this time of life: "We can stop taking life for granted in stage four. We might drop through levels of feeling we have been gifted by life, let-ting go of the attitude that life owes us." Another fine example of the difference between his efforts and other memoirs is the acknowledgement of not just the process, but the difficult challenge of achieving wisdom and clarity: "...gratitude for a single breath was not something I could easily access. It made sense to me and, at the same time, felt extremely foreign." The differences between this concept of 'soulful eldering' and books on aging which talk about how to inject power and prowess into one's revelations for future generations lies clearly on the side of a more spiritual attitude towards not just aging, but one's changing relevance to the world: "Soulful eldering is not interested in arriving bu