A Word to Young Adults from Parker Palmer
In his recent book about the aging process, On the Brink of Everything, Parker Palmer, the poetic educator from University of Wisconsin, recounts the following challenge he gave to a group of young people half his age:
"I feel like I am standing partway down the curvature of the earth, while you're close to the top of that curve looking at a horizon I can't see. I need to know what you're seeing, because whatever's on that horizon is coming at me as well. Please let me know what it is -- and when you do, speak loudly and clearly so I can hear what you're saying!"
"I feel like I am standing partway down the curvature of the earth, while you're close to the top of that curve looking at a horizon I can't see. I need to know what you're seeing, because whatever's on that horizon is coming at me as well. Please let me know what it is -- and when you do, speak loudly and clearly so I can hear what you're saying!"
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