Where the Search Begins - Hunting for Hope

Introduction: Sanders takes on big themes: living centered life, our relation to animals and to nature, the survival of human values in our greed-driven commercial culture.

Central Idea: The leitmotif is his not-quite-extinguished hope for a livable, sane world offering people a decent future hope he nurtures despite the ecological devastation, family breakdown and moral decay he sees.

Literature Support: Notable among these 15 adventurous essays are "Skill," a meditation on the life-enhancing use or the misuse of one's innate talents; "The Way of Things," an attempt to reconcile modern cosmology with ancient beliefs ...