Anthony Brooks

These stories show the transformative power of human passion and the search for lifelong avocation.

And that is literally a matter of life and death for all of us.

And by that, I mean, we know that people who feel that they have a purpose in life live longer.

And that's according to a growing body of research.

One study out of Canada found that people with a sense of purpose had a 15% lower risk of death compared with those who said they were aimless.

So they matter for that reason.

Yeah, it's a great question.

And it brings us to what was probably my favorite third act story about an all-woman rock and roll band.

All right.

This band is called the Ace of Cups.

So Aisha, this is a song from the Ace of Cups 2018 debut album, and the band members are all women.

But this record almost didn't happen.

The band was born in San Francisco in the 1960s, and they played with a lot of really well-known bands, including Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead.

But they never recorded an album.

They never managed to do that.

And as you can imagine, sexism had a lot to do with that.

Denise Kaufman plays guitar for the Ace of Cups, and she said that even landing gigs could be a challenge.

And she told me a story about trying to book a club in the 1960s in San Francisco.

So, well, they didn't play naked.

But by 1972, the band was pretty much done.