This is much more than essays on aging, on “getting old” gracefully. The book has the courage to address the current political situation. This heartfelt book reveals a gifted author.

Parker palmer is a quaker elder, educator, activist, and founder and senior partner emeritus of the center for courage & renewal. I'm very thankful to have discovered his work.

I admire palmer's ability to write about deeply disturbing subjects with simplicity and directness that makes it less painful to read about them and face difficult truths" "palmer also writes of his hopes for a creator with more a sense of levity than...  Read More

This book could have been salvaged, perhaps, if the editor had been heavier handed when cutting chunks of rambling, irrelevant and tedious thoughts. This book is just a rant about trump.

Palmer preaches themes of paradox and souls sacrificed to ego. Romans 2:1 must be left out of palmer's bible. Palmer, maybe it's time you really got fierce with reality, as you suggest.