We document elderwomen who live ordinary lives in extraordinary ways to illuminate their everyday wisdom as we reclaim a culture of human connection. As we face an era of a loneliness epidemic, we turn to listening to the matriarchs who have raised families, nurtured careers, and built communities. Their wisdom of human connection and the human experience has real power to heal generations facing the health, social, and economic risks of social isolation.

The women are typically in their 80s, 90s, and 100s, but we’ve been happy to document younger elder women in their 70s as well. They are mothers, community and business leaders, sisters, doctors, academics, artists, farmers, healers, gardeners, grandmothers, aunties, friends, inventors, activists, volunteers, historians, and women with experiential wisdom that is unquantifiable.

They often don’t know it, but their stories and their voices heal deep wounds of isolation and sorrow. Their joys, losses, triumphs, and humility are the medicine we are all looking for. We listen deeply. And tell their stories.