Encore: Work that matters in the second half of life.

Ode magazine adapts a section of Marc Freedman’s Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life in its November issue.

“The emerging trend toward extended productivity needs to be supported at every turn, as individuals seek to make ends meet over longer lifespans and societies seek to balance the fiscal ship,” Freedman writes.

“But we can go one important step further if we hope to make the most of the great gift of longevity. Aging boomers should be encouraged not only to continue contributing, but to rethink the purpose of that work—in short, to dust off their idealism of the ’60s and ’70s, and get to work making the world a better place.

“It is the perfect opportunity for the generation that set out to change the world and got lost along the way. Now, as tens of millions of boomers careen toward what were once the golden years, I believe more and more people are interested in living out a distinct and compelling vision of contribution in the second half of adult life, one built around the ideal of an “encore career” at the intersection of continued income, new meaning and significant contribution to the greater good.”

Ode, for those that don’t (yet) know it, pitches itself as a magazine for “intelligent optimists,” with the tagline “People, Passion, Possibilities.” It was founded in Rotterdam in 1995, but more recently has moved its base of operations to Mill Valley, north of San Francisco.

The San Francisco Chronicle recently featured Ode on the front page, as the leader in the new crop of “positive change” magazines in the Bay Area.