Reports from a fearless and stylish traveler in the unknown land of old age: The nearly 90-year-old Ilse Helbich offers insights in her new book into the workshop of a writer, into the crafting of sentences and thoughts, as well as into the daily life of a person confronted with the challenges and unique circumstances of advanced age. The inner cheerfulness of these writings is unparalleled, characterized by a calmness and a quiet, alert curiosity that also define all of Ilse Helbich's other texts and evoke a Buddhist worldview. Whether she speaks of a doctor's visit, a trip to the sea she takes with her family, the rules of her daily life, or the nature she now perceives with unprecedented intensity: Her sentences possess a lightness in capturing the heavy that is rarely found.