Mature Lifestyles features Splendid Seniors: "An Inspiring Read"

Mature Lifestyles, a monthly middle Tennessee publication dedicated to living fully after 50, features Jack Adler's Splendid Seniors: Great Lives, Great Deeds and Pearlsong Press's "Splendid Seniors Among Us" program in its November 2007 issue. Publisher/editor Norma Bixler writes in her column:

An Inspiring Read

So you think just because a person has hit their "senior" years, it's "over the hill," so to speak, and they don't have much to offer any more? Then you should grab a copy of Jack Adler's Splendid Seniors: Great Lives, Great Deeds. This book is a collection of biographical profiles of 52 personalities who made great and lasting achievements after the age of 65.

The book offers true tales of inspirational deeds and accomplishments of such inspiring seniors as Mary Baker Eddy, who was 86 when she founded the Christian Science Monitor; Alexander Graham Bell, who received a patent for his work on a hydrofoil boat at age 75; Benjamin Disraeli, who became prime minister of England for the second time when he was 70; and Susan B. Anthony, who was past 80 when she founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, and many others including Mother Theresa, Charles de Gaulle, Pablo Picasso and Grandma Moses.

Adler also highlights these personalities with their memorable quotes, like Somerset Maugham's "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to popular belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young" and Alexander Graham Bell's "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which was opened for us."

This book is genuinely a source of inspiration for seniors everywhere and proves that greatness, creativity, passion and intelligence can flourish with age and experience. Some reviewers praise its motivational value, as well, saying it should be on required reading lists for high school juniors and seniors.

Since publishing Splendid Seniors in March 2007, Pearlsong Press has honored a "splendid senior" from among us [once a month] and will continue to do so through February 2008.

So, if you know someone who accomplished something great after reaching age 65, such as any creative work, deeds through charity or community involvement or any inspirational accomplishment, nominate them or perhaps...yourself.

Splendid Seniors is available from wholesale and retail vendors worldwide including Ingram Book Group and Amazon.com or directly from the publisher at www.pearlsong.com; P.O. Box 58065, Nashville, TN 37205.

Mature Lifestyles also ran our call for nominations for the "Splendid Seniors Among Us" program and a sample of "interesting facts about senior accomplishments" from Splendid Seniors. (Click here for a PDF of these fun facts, which can be reprinted with attribution.)

Mature Lifestyles is published by Main Street Media, LLC of Lebanon, TN and distributed in Sumner, Wilson, Rutherford and Williamson counties.