Current Project
Hardship Alaska
Hardship Alaska chronicles the events, people, and places immediately leading up to and during my time serving as a Vietnam War-era conscientious objector. The heart of the story focuses on my two years of alternative civilian service working and living in Alaska. The story will be of interest to those of us who’ve lived through the Vietnam War era or other times of social and political unrest, who’ve dealt with coming out and becoming comfortable with their sexual identity at a time when it would otherwise be dangerous to do so; and, defining one’s belief in God. In other words, it’s a story about what happens when one’s core beliefs are challenged, our ability to endure in times of personal crisis and danger, and being an outsider in search of community.
To learn more about the book, please visit Donald Proffit
Now. When I have overcome my fears—of others, of myself, of the underlying darkness: at the frontier of the unheard-of. Here ends the known. But from a source beyond it, something fills my being with its possibilities. At the frontier—
Dag Hammarskjold, Markings