Written in his late seventies, Palmer's final major work addresses the gift and challenge of aging with the same combination of vulnerability, wisdom, and spiritual depth that has characterized all his work. He explores what it means to move toward the end of a life with openness rather than despair — to allow the losses and limitations of old age to deepen rather than diminish one's engagement with the world. The book speaks to men of all ages about the arc of a meaningful life, and particularly to men in later life reckoning with legacy, mortality, and what they were really for. Palmer writes with the courage of someone who has already faced the dark, including severe depression, and emerged with a hard-won capacity for grace.
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