From Carrie- Happy Birthday Parker J. Palmer
"Climbing Up That Mountain" By Carrie Newcomer & John McCutcheon!
Hi folks, Carrie Newcomer here……
Today is our good friend Parker J. Palmer’s 86th Birthday! This is a song John McCutcheon and I recorded last year and wanted to repost and revisit this year.
One of the great gifts of my time on this planet is loving and experiencing Parker’s powerful work and witness in this world - but also to have had the opportunity to collaborate on many creative conversations and projects and most of all to call him a dear friend and mentor. I will be grateful all my days for this deep, abiding and life changing gift. - Carrie Newcomer
I hope you’ll check out Parker’s books, videos, On Being Podcast, Facebook author page and The Growing Edge Podcast and Substack Newsletter.
Happy Birthday Parker!
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I want to thank Carrie, John, and everyone who left a comment here for helping to make my 86th birthday a very happy one. Your kind and generous words mean the world to me. I so deeply value the way Carrie connects us through her spirit, her music, and her in-person and online presence. In a world where too many people have forgotten that we are members of one another, Carrie and the folks who follow her are harbingers of hope. I'm ever-grateful to be part of that community! Thank you again...
Happy Birthday, Parker! And thank you for many years of service to humanity and for being my mentor from afar.
I first learned about you many years ago during a time of crisis in my life. I was touring a retreat center, and out of my conversation with the intuitive women who directed the center, she went to a bookcase, handed me a copy of Let Your Life Speak, and said, “here, I think this might help you.” It was a life changing moment. It seems inadequate to say, but Thank You! Your life has made a difference in my life.