Secure Site:

These are insecure times. Considering my past experience performing pointless tasks for the managerially-impaired, or long stretches eked out as a subsistence entrepreneur, you might think that it would be equally hard on my nerves to work for an outfit like NCPR. After all, part of its budget is subject to the vagueries of culture war politics and it gets by mostly on semi-annual bouts of intense begging.

But not so--instead, I witness the practical miracle of the gift economy at work year after year. So long as we maintain our focus on serving and supporting the communities of this region, those communities will return to us what we need to survive. At first, it takes a little faith to live on the generosity of strangers--but in time, keeping faith turns faith to fact. Thanks to each of you for all for your support.