N. Thomas Johnson-Medland is Director of Psychosocial and Spiritual Excellence at BAYADA Hospice. He is the author of River Bending, Coming Back Home, In The Same Place, Bathed in Abrasion, Bridges, Paths, and Waters; Dirt, Sky, and Mountains, Cairn-Space, Entering the Stream, Along the Road, From the Belly of the Whale, Danse Macabre, Feed My Sheep; Lead My Sheep, Windows and Doors, For the Beauty of the Earth, Duende, and Turning Within. He lives a stone's throw from the Susquehanna River in Columbia, Pennsylvania—just outside Lancaster—with his wife, Glinda. Tom and Glinda have two adult sons, Zachary Aidan and Josiah Gabriel.