About the Author

Parker Palmer is one of our wisest minds and lives and one of my greatest mentors. He has the spirit of a poet and the stature of a prophet. There is no one I'd rather eavesdrop on as he ponders ''the brink of everything.'' This book is a companion for not merely surviving a fractured world, but embodying - like Parker - the fiercely honest and gracious wholeness that is ours to claim at every stage of life. -KRISTA TIPPETT,  founder of On Being Studios, author of Einstein's God and Becoming Wise, winner of the 2014 National Humanities Medal