Wholesale The Joy Document

When Jennifer McGaha's grandmother was in her late eighties, McGaha asked her what her favorite age had been. "Fifty-five," her grandmother answered, as though there were something magical about this stage of life. So, in her own fifty-fifth year, Jennifer began to take note. She jotted down her impressions of simple, everyday things that struck her as beautiful or humorous or intriguing and kept a list of all the accomplishments, large and small, that mattered to her. These notes became McGaha’s Joy Document. When you are determined to find joy, almost anything can become revelatory--an Earth Day Whole Foods errand, Claire Saffitz's fruitcake recipe, or a harrowing ride in Twinkly Taxi. While many of us at midlife have found the things we've strived for (the career, the better life, the organization tools), those things only go so far. The search for something greater, something truer, begins. Now, life after fifty becomes not the end or even the middle of life, but a new beginning.