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Time Is The Substance

A love letter to a long life on Bald Mountain — and a celebration of what growing old with grace can feel like.

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Marilyn Moss Rockefeller

Essays, memoir, and the hard-earned wisdom of a life fully felt.

Marilyn Moss Rockefeller has spent over eight decades paying close attention — to the natural world, to the people who shaped her, to the grief and grace woven through an ordinary extraordinary life. Her books are an invitation to slow down, to remember, and to find beauty in what endures.

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Time Is The Substance

Written at eighty-four, from her home on the coast of Maine, this luminous collection of essays is a love letter to a long life on Bald Mountain. It is not a book of regret or nostalgia. It is something rarer: an honest and tender reckoning with what it means to grow old with open eyes — to accept grief without surrendering, to find wonder still arriving.

"A beautiful and timeless meditation on cherishing both the small and large moments of joy that make up our lives."

— Nancy Hauswald, Left Bank Books

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Nancy Harmon Jenkins

Writer, speaker, traveler, storyteller; author of Virgin Territory and many other books.

“Light-hearted but deep with emotion, Marilyn Moss Rockefeller’s collection of essays reflects a rich and well-lived life, stretching from the hills of Appalachia to the coast of Maine. In generous and evocative detail, she writes of childhood tragedies and adult triumphs, along with loves (human and animal) and losses (ditto), and her own unstinting determination to understand and embrace what life has given her."

About the Author

Author. CEO. MFA. IPPY Silver Medal winner. Marilyn Moss Rockefeller has earned every word she writes — from the hills of West Virginia to the coast of Maine, across three books and eight remarkable decades.

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