On

by Mark Leary

Paperback 369 pages Published November 2023 Details When you look back on your life, can you see how all the years fit together? I couldn't. And that felt like a problem. I couldn’t see a throughline, something that connected little me to big me. And if I couldn’t see a throughline, what else was I missing? I wondered whether I was living as fully as I could or was I just letting time pass me by. So, I began the task of excavating my past in order to make better sense of my present. And that started by asking the questions I’ve always wondered about. Story by story, memory by memory, and question by question, I started finding bits and pieces of me tucked in here and there in my history. But I found something more. I discovered that we all have a lot in common … when we look closely enough at our shared stories. I’m so excited to share this collections of essayettes with you. My hope is that, in reading this book, you'll also find a piece (or many) of your self and your own story here; that you'll find a safe place to reflect on who you are, learning how the pieces of your own life fit together to form a whole; and a space to consider what a life lived with more grace, and more self-compassion, and little more tenderness might look like. Thank you for being you, and I couldn’t be more grateful.

381 pages, Hardcover

Published November 11, 2023

Reviews

[Kim Leary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mark does a fantastic job of capturing the essence of life's lessons in a series of short anecdotes. This is not a book you read in a sitting but one that you savor and skip around and use as your daily inspirational prod.