"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller Ask someone where they "grew up," and you'll likely receive a simple answer-a town, a neighborhood, a childhood memory frozen in time. But after eighty years of living, questioning, succeeding, failing, loving, and losing, Lee Howard Thompson offers a different perspective: Growing up is not an event. It is a lifelong awakening. In If Not Now, When?, Thompson reflects on the inner evolution that unfolds quietly beneath the surface of a life well-lived. With the clarity that only time can provide, he explores the difference between knowledge and wisdom-and why transcendence requires both. Knowledge informs the mind. Wisdom transforms the heart.