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“This isn’t a book, it’s an agitation. A glorious rumination that gets inside words themselves and tugs adroitly at their root system, part of a wider exfoliation that holds subtle ideas close, lest they disappear in all this mud, smoke, and darkness. This isn’t a book, it’s a kind of divining, the rare breed that can leave the scriber harrowed and the reader blessed. This isn’t a book, it’s a murmuration, erudite wonderings that have wingspan and wit, turning suddenly and with elegance over the trembling acreage of our lives.” —Dr. Martin Shaw, author of Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia“Stephen Jenkinson has a way of reaching right into the heart of Western culture’s dis-ease, all the while deftly rupturing and turning the English language inside out in order to do so. He traces the roots of the word elder to ‘coming to fullness’ or ‘fully realized,’ to one who may take their place among us only when the ebbing and failure of growth is admitted.” —Ruth Jones, founder of Holy Hiatus, Wales, UK “Jenkinson does not blame, indict, nor traffic in solution, rather he elders—with an immense love of life and the world—the long redemptive road where young and old might yet recognize each other and decide to take a little walk. Come of Age has so much respect for your willingness to pick it up that it will ask more of you than you ever thought possible; an unlikely and precious gift that may just change everything.” —Sean Aiken, author of The One-Week Job Project “Be you young, middle-aged, or in your time of greying, Stephen Jenkinson’s scrying into the daunting crater of what has happened to us historically, mythically, spiritually to forge today’s dominant culture with its signature malignant appetite for progress and novelty, is a much-needed missive from an uncommonly rare voice in the clamouring marketplace of protest, self-help, and innovative solutions. Come of Age attests to the tragic dearth of deep abiding regard for elderhood once traditionally recognized and prized as a sign of health and sanity in cultures that knew something of the artful ways of the world, of the Gods and of human making, a regard without which a culture goes bankrupt and becomes a menace to life and to itself. With a lucidity that is at once beautifully poetic and arresting, and with an astounding deftness tracing the signs available to us in both their unmistakable presences and absences, Jenkinson invites us to gather around the crackling fire of wonder and heartbreak where, without recourse to clever fixes, we might properly give ourselves to being awed, bewildered, and sorrowed, perhaps the preferred ground of real humility and courage. For the sake of the world, for the sake of the young, for the sake of elderhood, let this prescient book wreck you.” —Rachelle Lamb, Nonviolent Communications (NVC) Trainer “This book transcends ideology and platitudes and takes you deep into ancestral roots and wisdom. Jenkinson is a treasure—a raspy, nonconforming sage who has the rare ability to sneak up behind you with masterful storytelling that compels you to be troubled enough and to wonder (barely in the nick of time) if you are ready to begin to live your life as if you matter. This book brings a deeply learned, insightful, and rare perspective on navigating these troubled modern times.” —Dana Bass Solomon, Graduated CEO, Hollyhock Centre, British Columbia, Canada “If you have ever been fortunate enough to be standing by a frozen river on the days when the slightly warming temperature over the previous days has made the ice just fragile enough to finally give way to the urgent water that had been dammed upstream, you might have witnessed an analogue to this book. The cracking and groaning of the ice as the water goes from trickle to gushing flood and finding the boundaries of the banks is a marvel to see and hear. Jenkinson’s words in his newest book are that bracing, urgent, and ancient water pushing through the frozen times we might find ourselves living in. This encomium to elderhood is a slow and winding affair that gathers power and purpose and new influences as the waters roll down from an altitude to and through our lives down here.” —Matthew Stillman, author of Genesis Deflowered “Come of Age is a timely, powerful exploration of the loss of elderhood in our society. Stephen has gifted us with a compelling, poetic appraisal of the loss of and need for elderhood, interwoven with poignant and sometimes painful stories and lessons. An invaluable contribution to our society that will inspire generations to come.” —Ramona Bolton, director, Institute of Traditional Medicine “In Come of Age, Stephen Jenkinson invites the reader to join him in a lyrical journey as he makes the case for elderhood. His luminous and erudite prose unravels the metanarrative of Western culture as it ponders time, the deep contours of Christianity, the implications of civis Romanus sum for the creation of the entity known as The West, the forgetting of place or as he puts it ‘place literacy,’ and the joy of poetry. In these wide-ranging musings, Jenkinson reveals the poverty of a culture in which people are old but not elders while breathing life into the possibility of an elder, forged by the calamities of time, who proceeds with deep courtesy as if he or she is needed.” —Sikata Banerjee, PhD, professor of gender studies, University of Victoria “Many of us in this modern, dominant culture of North America walk around with a deep ‘elder hunger’ but we don't recognize it as such until we meet someone willing to elder. Jenkinson makes the case that waking up to this hunger and learning how to contend with it well might be one of the most needed things in this time and place we live in. I look around me and see the hunger for convenience, efficiency, ease, freedom. and more, but perhaps we might be better served to open the pages of this book and see if a certain relationship to this old, human hunger might help us conjure the food that the soul of our culture so desperately needs.” —Tad Hargrave, founder, Marketing for Hippies “We live in deeply troubled times. The biosphere is collapsing, the economy sputtering, and the mania for the ever-new continues its siren song. To whom and to what can young people turn that might still yet stand in the face of the storm? Enter Come of Age—a raucous and grief-soaked tangle through the annals of history, language, etymology, and, above all, a deep love of life. With fierce prose and unrelenting compassion, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case for elderhood in a time desperate for the wisdom that accrues to those willing to be aged, who are willing to know limitation and deep service to the ending of days.” — Ian MacKenzie, filmmaker, Occupy Love and Amplify Her
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About the Author
STEPHEN JENKINSON, MTS, MSW is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer. He has a master's degree in theology from Harvard University and a master's degree in social work from the University of Toronto. Formerly a hospital director and medical-school assistant professor, Jenkinson is now a sought-after workshop leader, speaker, and consultant to palliative care and hospice organizations. He is the founder of the Orphan Wisdom School in Canada, author of Die Wise, and the subject of the documentary film Griefwalker.
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Product details
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books (July 3, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1623172098
ISBN-13: 978-1623172091
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.2 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
14 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#80,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Got Come of Age promptly on July 3rd, and finished reading it just in time to interview the author, Stephen Jenkinson, for my podcast (A Worldview Apart). The book is incredible, and as good as Die Wise was I think this most recent offering far eclipses it. Jenkinson does indeed make a case for elderhood in a time of trouble, but if you expect him to write out his central theses in bland lettering like an academic or reporter might do, you will be left wanting. No, if you want to taste the core of his philosophy, you will have to work for it. Stephen has an astonishing mastery of the English language, and his etymological explorations add so much depth and richness to his philosophical meanderings. You will have to read, re-read, think on things for a bit, and re-read again. I suspect some will tire of this, but I adore this sort of writing, at least when the author tackles worthy subjects. And Jenkinson does indeed. Come of Age is not just a lament about the lack of elders in the Western world, it is also a forensic investigation of the roots of this outcome, one that follows an expansionist trail all the way back to the Roman Empire and perhaps even before. Ancestry, culture, monotheism, change, and even the emergence of white supremacy are touched on in due course, as are other topics. And the author approaches these with both a sense of wonder and humility that I find so refreshing in these days of fake news and alternative facts. I loved this book, and will certainly read it again.
Reading Jenkinson is not like anything else. Listening to him is the same. His answers are unhurried, thoughtful, even lyrical, and whatever the opposite of dumbed down is, they're that. I will often go back to a section I highlighted because it felt important but I couldn't quite follow, only to find every word finely crafted, his argument pure and clear. I don't know how he does it.He's one of those people who has wrestled truth to the ground and is able to write about it. His voice is important and his books ought to be required reading for all members of the human race who are working on being more human.
Jenkinson is a national treasure (well, I assume he is in Canada, where he lives, but I suppose we can claim him as a "North American Treasure". Deeply wise, funny and articulate, a great storyteller. This book won't appeal to everyone in our fast paced, highly distracted and dubiously motivated society, which Jenkinson explores in great detail, and provides alternative. His other recent book - DieWise - was also a must read, for those that find beauty in big questions and exploring the nature of a life well-lived.
Been waiting for this one! FINALLY the words for what has only been a deep gnawing feeling for a long while now. I accept your invitation. May others! Thank you Stephen Jenkinson.
Stephen Jenkinson is unlike any writer/philosopher I’ve ever read! He brilliant and lyrical prose draw me in and will not let me go. Sometimes I laugh out loud, sometimes I’m in tears. I’m learning through it all...may we all take the need to nurture and cultivate true elders again, our youth deserve no less and our future may very well depend on it!
Stephen often says that 'food makes hunger'. You forget you're hungry until the scent of food being cooked in the kitchen reaches your nostrils. And then it all comes at once. You'd gotten so caught up in whatever you were doing that you'd forgotten to eat. Or, you'd been eating the cotton candy, fast food diet of this culture and, while you forgot what real food was, your body did not. It remembered the moment it smelled it. I think many of us in this modern, dominant culture of North America, walk around with a deep 'elder hunger' but we don't recognize it as such until we meet someone willing to elder. And so, I believe that this book, a visitation of eldership itself, will make hunger. Stephen makes the case that waking up to this hunger and learning how to contend with it well might be one of the most needed things in this time and place we live in. Stephen offers no easy answers but instead, urges us to wonder: What is an elder? What is it that crafts an elder? Can one simply pronounce one's self to be an elder? What does an elder do? Is elder a noun (something you are) or a verb (something you do)? Where have the elders gone? Why did they go? Why aren't they appearing now at the time when the world needs them most? Why do we have more old people now than we've ever had and yet so few elders? How could it be that we've had a hundred years of books on personal growth, personal empowerment and leadership, a rapidly growing industry of therapists, 'shamans', healers and life coaches, more seminars and retreats than you could shake a stick at, and yet so few elders? What do we do with our hunger for them once it appears? How is it that the elder has become an archetype and no longer a part of the architecture? How has it come to pass that we are instructed to find our inner elder but there is no real-world, institution of elderhood? And, perhaps most importantly, what might it take to conjure the practice of elderhood into this world again? I look around me and see the hunger for convenience, efficiency, ease, freedom and 'more' but perhaps we might be better served to open the pages of this book and see if a certain relationship to this old, human hunger might help us conjure the food that the soul of our culture so desperately needs.
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