"I'm just a crazy old man" says my 95 years old friend as I gaze into his sky-blue vibrant eyes. "I love your craziness Jan" I say, emphasizing that I hope to be at least as crazy when and if I reach his age. Like him, I hope to still be writing books, poetry, speaking up boldly and being of service to others as he continues to be.

What about you? How do you intend to live as the passage of time moves you forward? When the decades stack up and bring you closer to your last year, your last month, your last week and your last hour?

Audaciously, perhaps? We urge you to age audaciously as we lead this trail-blazing anthology, replete with bold, provocative ideas, truth-filled assertions and freeing empowerment. Here, we throw caution to the wind and write with the constant knowing that time is of the essence.

Here, we speak for those who are entering the second half of their life as a re-birth. Yes, we are re-born when we act from a deep knowingness about what it means to be fully alive at a time like this on our planet. We are re-born when we harness our intent to stand on behalf of the better Future and bring it forward with the power of our actions, our words and our deep yearning. We are re-born when we unleash our creativity and our fire to re-enchant our world with our love for nature and for all that are alive. And we surely start anew when we shed the remnants of our guarded, timid ways to reveal our true, divinely imperfect beauty, identity and changeless authentic strength.

Here, we invite you to ride with us on the wings of courage, from our heightened perspectives afforded by the years of our journeys. On the inner landscape of our lives, we now harvest the profound wisdom we gained from decades of achieving our potential while overcoming adversity and learning to love evermore deeply.

In these pages, we provide you with tools, information and inspiration, to rise up to the vision and the tasks of participating in the ongoing transformation of our society. Here we support you to know that in your daily life, no benevolent action is too small or insignificant. We urge you to realize that every love-filled thought ripples out in widening circles across our shared humanity. We empower you to experience yourself as a potent, fearless instigator of truth and love-in-action.

While we acknowledge that our time requires immediacy, we strive to move forward from a mindset of timeless equanimity. As we deploy the full wings of our heart-inspired power, we rise above any desires for personal aggrandizement. Yet, this time demands that as we meld our individuality into our collectivity, we also contribute our own true colors, passions and unique experiences into the present transformative process.

Come with us as we accelerate the shifts from our youth/appearance-worshiping culture into one that fosters the veritable values of the human heart. With you, we are presencing a culture that's moved past petty preoccupations into one that honors elders about to embrace their role as Ancestors of the Future. Join us in this extraordinary collection of writings, resplendent with the triumphs and beauty of the human spirit, with timeless ways of maintaining real wellness and vitality, and with the means to usher unprecedented realms of evolution at this crucial time on our beloved Earth.

In gratitude,
Isabelle St-Jean