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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 MedalOur entire culture is deeply in need of true elders, and you can't be one until you have arrived there -- chronologically, spiritually, and intellectually. Parker J. Palmer is a writer and a man who has clearly earned the title of elder. And he elders with such readability and humor! This book is a generous gift to all of us--and to our attempts at a truly human civilization. --RICHARD ROHR, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation, and author of Falling Upward and Adam's Return Parker J. Palmer's tenth wise book, On the Brink of Everything, is a wondrously rich mix of reality and possibility, comfort and story, helpful counsel and poetry, in the voice of a friend. It's an honest wake-up chime, no matter where you are in your own time-line, because somehow, these pages hold all of time -- past and present, stirring together, refreshing the spirit. This is a book of immense gratitude, consolation, and praise. --NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, author of Transfer and Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners, and National Book Award finalistParker Palmer is the most integral and wholehearted teacher of our age. For nearly eight decades, he has seen much, questioned everything, and returned with a wisdom essential to everyone. His latest book, On the Brink of Everything, is a deep reflection on aging that offers a master's earned view of the large and the small, and how we're all vital threads woven together by life. This book will stir your soul and bring you closer to everything. --MARK NEPO, author of More Together Than Alone and The Book of Awakening Parker Palmer has given me so many gifts through the years. His writing has done for me what I can only hope mine does for others. On the Brink of Everything has given me new and special gifts. Parker, now in his late 70s, has helped this guy in his early 60s think of my years ahead as "triple wrapped in mystery." Savoring this book is a kind of mentorship in aging, and it ends in a crescendo of poetry. My first thought when I turned the last page: "I want to read this again from the beginning, starting right now." --BRIAN D. McLAREN, author of The Great Spiritual Migration
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From the Publishers Weekly review, May 28, 2018: "Warm, generous, and funny, this impassioned book invites readers to the deep end of life where authentic soul work and human transformation become pressing concerns."
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Product details
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (June 26, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1523095431
ISBN-13: 978-1523095438
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 0.7 x 7.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
183 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
As I've witnessed my family and mentors age, I've often wondered what sets apart those who manage to open up to the world, get more humble, more curious, more grateful, more awed, and those that close in, get bitter, start navel-gazing, lose sight of wonder and the wideness of the world. This book feels like one extremely readable, often funny, deeply vulnerable version of the answer. It's about relationships. It's about pausing to take in the preciousness of these brief, terrible, beautiful lives. Parker is one of the most intimate writers I know. He always makes you feel like you're having a 1:1 conversation when you read him. It's such a gift. I'm going to give this book to every older friend and family member I have.
This is the first time I have been introduced to Parker J Palmer. Why have I not read any of his books before?! He is part poet, part storyteller. I am in my 40's and it is refreshing to have someone in the sunset of life talk about what it is like to age—but do so gracefully. I think two quotes from the book sum his wisdom up best: "I would be lying if I said that I am awed by all that comes with old age ... and yet it is because of the diminishments of age, not in spite of them, that I often find myself in awe as I stand on the brink of everything." I will be using this, in part, as a roadmap of how to set my sights as I move through life. A lot of wisdom here.
Having enjoyed the pleasure of reading an advance copy of On the Brink of Everything, I am delighted to encourage anyone interested in “conscious aging†to treat themselves by reading this book! Like all of Parker Palmer’s writings, ON THE BRINK is honest, intimate, original, courageous and inspiring. Right out the gate, he states:“I don’t want to fight the gravity of aging. It’s nature’s way. I want to collaborate with it as best I can, in hopes of going down with something like the loveliness of that sunset. For all the wrinkles and worry lines, it’s a beautiful thing simply to be one of those who’s lived long enough to say, ‘I’m getting old.’â€Imagine collaborating with your aging! This book proceeds to suggest many ways one just might do that! The invitation here is to consider the privilege and responsibility that comes with living a long life, to become “fierce with reality†and own your whole life journey, with its shadows, failures, successes and light, and determine how to spend the precious time you have left in meaningful ways.Parker names many of the underrated aspects of aging, including a new freedom to use time differently, and commit ourselves to things we care deeply about, unencumbered with the pressures and demands of the first half of life, like proving ourselves, looking good, etc. “More than fearing the cost of taking risks for the things I care about, I fear aging into irrelevance. For people like me, the notion that old age is a time to dial it down and play it safe is a cop-out. We elders should be raising hell on behalf of whatever we care about: freedom’s just another word for not needing to count the cost.â€The idea of raising hell about what we care about...for me, that is the question at the center of aging. What do you care about now, and how will you engage in that caring? In a strange way, the need for discernment about vocation and calling gets more intense with age, much like when we were young people starting out.Finally, I especially enjoyed his reflections on the writing life and its’ connection to the faith journey:“Since writing is sometimes a form of prayer for me, here’s another parallel between faith and writing: ‘When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing…on the street corners to be seen by men. … When you pray, go into your room, and close the door…’ (Matthew 6:5) Or, as Mrs. Patrick Campbell might say, “When you pray, don’t frighten the horses.When I write, I seem to be partnering with something that is not yet me or mine—or with something more truly me and mine than I normally have access to.Here’s a question at the heart of both writing and faith. As we probe reality with words or with leaps of faith, are our findings discoveries or inventions? My best guess is that the answer is “Yes.â€And why have faith, if God is so small as to be contained within our finite words and formulae? To write and live in faith, we must let God be God—original, wild, free, a creative impulse that animates all of life, but can never be contained within the limits of what we think, say and do. Thank God for that.â€As I am sure you can tell, ON THE BRINK OF EVERYTHING emerges out of hard-earned experience from Parker’s 79 years. It is a treasure-trove of stories and reflections that communicate so much more than just essays on “how to age,†with the authority and wisdom of his old, young soul, and his beautiful gift of writing. There are clear drumbeats of themes he has written about throughout his lifetime: embracing wholeness; the paradoxical nature of truth; the “primal wildness†of God and the soul; his relationship with Thomas Merton, silence and solitude; the notion of faithfulness to what we care about; that the way with pain and depression is down and through in order to receive its hard lessons; and nonviolent engagement in the midst of great political and racial unrest, all woven together with humor, his own poetry, and memorable stories. Like all of Parker’s books, I am sure it will be one I will reread often to guide me in my elder years. I hope you find it to be so as well!
The key features of this book that lead me to give it a high rating are: (1) It builds on the lifetime experience of a man who's nearly 80 and has served as a teacher, a community organizer, the founder of a non-profit organization, and a writer and lecturer. He has a wide range of experience, and he's learned a lot from it. (2) While the book faces squarely into the challenges that come with aging and coming to terms with mortality, it does so with good humor and compassion for the human struggle, both personal and communal. (3) Though I am much younger than the author and have pursued a different outer path in life, I found his insights to be relevant to me and, I think, people of many ages - insights that feel universal, not age bound. (4) The book has the courage to address the current political situation, and the author has the courage to confess his own complicity in it, as a citizen. I highly recommend this book to people who want to explore such things.
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