"Awakening" boldly investigates the steps that heroic people everywhere are taking to meet the effects of the current economic and social crisis in daily life. These dynamic role models are feeding the homeless, retrieving parents from nursing homes, growing their own food, creating community, radically forgiving, and discovering the miraculous. The Western American author Louis Lamour has said that "There will come a time when you think that everything is ending. But that will be the beginning." "Awakening" is about that planetary beginning. www.connieshaw.com

Selfless Service - A Hunger to Serve: Interviews with several dedicated and resourceful people who are feeding the needy with no expectation of thanks, recognition or wonderful outcomes. In this interview we learn what led them to serve, how they do it, and the travails they've surpassed and lessons they've learned.