Just across the street from the hippest, hipster-ist market in all of Los Angeles sit four hulking concrete buildings that serve as home to over a thousand elderly people--the largest low-income senior housing project in the nation. Demand for garden plots is almost as high as interest in the apartments.

Would you take your clothing off on stage in a crowded theater? At 57, LizAnne Keigley can't quite believe she's voluntarily agreed to disrobe publicly: "What the hell was I thinking, really?" Her decision has to do with a major transformation she's undergone that callenges conventional perceptions of aging.

"I guess to live life more gracefully maybe has less to do with notions about age than it has to do with a basic orientation toward what it means to be alive."