Tommy Lorden is a father, fisherman, recovering lawyer, entrepreneur, and student of history, faith, and human nature. His curiosity has led him from a self-taught set of Irish bagpipes to open-water scuba diving, and eventually to more Grateful Dead parking lots than he can count. He has taken his education from great books, trout streams, the stranger on the next barstool, and years spent exploring the world—convinced that everyone he meets knows something he doesn’t. He wrote Getting Grounded as an act of gratitude for the wisdom so generously passed on to him, and in the hope of passing some of it on to the next generation.