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lives that they felt best repre-
sented them. One brought in a
picture taken that morning and
told the group that she was her
best self and expected to feel the
same the next year.
The experience, Ms. Pogrebin
said, helped her to shift her
thinking: "It's not about age; it's
about time," she realized.
And time is most precious of
all, a "vehicle through which you
travel to develop yourself," she
said.
She began to enumerate the
amount of it used in pursuits like
putting on makeup and coloring
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second annual Joint Women's
Day last week at Adat Shalom
Synagogue. The event, spon-
sored by ORT, Hadassah, Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women,
the Women's Campaign and Ed-
ucation Department of the Jew-
ish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, and The Jewish News,
also featured workshops on cos-
metic surgery, holistic health,
hormonal changes and over-di-
eting.
Linda Klein of the Federation
commented that the groups
wanted to bring in a "provoca-
tive speaker and offer workshops
that might not be profound but
would be interesting."
The five organizations joined
forces in sponsoring the event in
order to make it easier for work-
ing and otherwise busy women
to attend, event chairperson
Paula Glazier explained.
Ms. Pogrebin, now 57, spoke
to a rapt audience of over 450
women of all ages as she talked
about her mother's early death
from breast cancer — she was
53, Letty was 15 — as the origin
of her "extreme discomfort"
about growing older.
On the eve of her 50th birth-
day, a personal crisis set in:
Would she live longer than her
mother had? How could she con-
tinue to think of herself as young
when she had fewer years ahead
of her than behind her? What
about all the goals she had yet
to reach?
Her stature as a woman, she
felt, suddenly changed in soci-
ety's estimation: Without her
"looks," was her worth also di-
minished? And yet, as a feminist
who counts Gloria Steinem as
a good friend and her hero, it was
politically incorrect, at the very
least, to worry about aging.
So she rang in her birthday
with other 49- and 50-year-old
women, hoping to gather new in-
sights about aging. She asked
them to bring photographs of
themselves at the point in their
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aging, says writer and pre-
eminent feminist Letty
Cottin Pogrebin.
The paradox is rich, but the
meaning is clear: When time be-
comes more than a commodity
to beat into submission, to count
or to exhaust, aging also begins
to take on a new meaning.
Ms. Pogrebin, a founder of Ms.
magazine who explores her fears
and discoveries upon turning 50
in her latest and eighth book,
Lefty Cottin Pogrebin:
Time is on her side.
reluctantly) — time-wasting ef-
forts to fend off the evidence of
aging.
"When you see me go gray,
you'll know I've accepted this
time thing," Ms. Pogrebin
laughed.
Judaism also took on new
meaning in her exploration of
the meaning of time.
Time is essential in Jewish
celebrations and in Jewish life,
she noted. Aside from the "ritu-
alized remembering" of
Passover, there is Shabbat, a
"space in time" that slows time
by respecting it.
Ms. Pogrebin advocates
"mindfulness" — paying close at-
tention to one's actions, thoughts
and surroundings — and doing
something new often, even if it's
as easy as listening to a differ-
ent radio station on the way to
work.
"Things unfamiliar and new
slow time because we are look-
ing," she said.
As for herself, Ms. Pogrebin is
confident she'll be around until
90 — and not as a self-involved,
crotchety older woman. She
hopes, rather, to become a "lu-
minous woman with her eye on
the prize rather than the hour-
glass." ❑