Duncan and Frances cover a number of key transitions of the last four decades, and why we are again now in "the best of times and the worst of times", the opening lines of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. These are times of strife that require both a revolutionary and evolutionary shift -both of consciousness, and from that naturally- evolved action. ‘Frankie’ describes the awakening and shift that happened to her in her twenties that resulted in her writing what became the 1971 three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet. In between that time and her sixteenth and just-published book Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage, she and Duncan intersperse personal tales of inspiration from five continents, including their separate life-changing meetings with Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kenyan Wangari Mathai. Uncertainty and fear are revealed as pure energy that we have the power to transmute now into a new 21st century form of living democracy through inner and outer dialogue.

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