"e;SOME NOTES YOU HOLD contains poetry about surviving what life throws at us as we age. The so-called "e;Golden Years"e; are so named because of the high admission price-the tremendous losses, disappointments, illnesses, and failures we all experience if we live long enough. The first part of the book, called "e;Letting Go,"e; focuses on surviving deep grief; the second half, called "e;Holding On,"e; explores all the roads leading to survival: playing music, prayer and meditation, deep communion with the natural world, and writing. The price paid for those "e;golden years"e; leads to the prize: insight, joy, and a kind of peace we were incapable of when we were young"e;--