Book Freak 121: Oliver Sacks on Gratitude in Old Age

In this issue: four pieces of advice from Gratitude, by Oliver Sacks.

Look forward to being 80

“My father, who lived to ninety-four, often said that the eighties had been one of the most enjoyable decades of his life. He felt, as I begin to feel, not a shrinking but an enlargement of mental life and perspective. One has had a long experience of life, not …