WRESTLING GIANTS   – As a recovering cynic, I love to hear stories about people who do truly beneficial work simply because they understand their own abilities and believe in themselves.  I need to know there are people so strong and resourceful that they do their work no matter what, just because they can.  People […]

    One fall afternoon — red leaves, silver drizzle — a friend and I were given a tour of Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire.  We learned many things:  how the Shakers believed in a life of unceasing prayer defined as everything one did, said and thought.  All activity was an homage to God. […]