From “On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old” by Parker J. Palmer
For many years, writing has been one of my ways of collaborating with life. For me, writing is not about filling my head with ideas, then downloading them to the page. That’s not writing; it’s typing. Writing is an unfolding of what’s going on inside me as I talk to myself on a pad of paper or a computer, a version of talk therapy that requires neither an appointment nor a fee. This book, my tenth, is one fruit of my collaboration with aging – an offering from a fellow traveler to those who share this road, pondering as they go.