"Invited to Speak is like spending time in the company of someone who will remind you-even with all its suffering-of the beauty and mystery of the world." --Ellen Bass, co-author of The Courage to Heal
"Joseph Bednarik has given a gift to all of us in this series of stories and meditations." --Stephen Tobolowsky, author of My Adventures with God
Gliding into the spaces between inspirational TED talks and late-night conversations around a beach fire, these seven presentations-delivered to Unitarian Universalist congregations throughout the Pacific Northwest-are open invitations for readers and seekers to consider the manifold layers of the world with joyful curiosity.
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Joseph Bednarik graduated with a degree in philosophy from Haverford College and spent his professional career working for nonprofit literary publishers. He edited and co-edited several books, including The Sumac Reader (Michigan State University Press, 1997), One-Man Boat: The George Hitchcock Reader (Story Line Press, 2003), and Jim Harrison: Complete Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), which was selected as an "Editor's Choice," by The New York Times Book Review.