Thomas C Schmidt

Seeking Adventure, Finding Home.: a Memoir Thomas C Schmidt

Publisher Marketing: What is "Home"? Where is it? Who lives there? These are just three of the many questions of Being Human that Tom Schmidt sought to answer in this deeply felt memoir of journeys taken and discoveries made over a long and bountiful life. An ever-probing mind propelled Tom to significant accomplishments in twenty-two countries on five continents via four distinctly different careers: Episcopal priest to expatriate communities in Columbia, and facilitating racially integrated leadership workshops during apartheid in South Africa; an inter-organizational systems Ph. D. and state Commissioner of Education; a World Bank developer of educational programs in several third world countries; and, as a vigorous elder, an organic gardener and home renovation carpenter. But it was Tom's ever-questing heart that impelled him finally to a perspective of his life as an abiding search for Home-within himself. That search led him far from his origins, drove him to seek new experiences and challenges, and delivered him in old age to the rigorously honest self-assessment of this plain-spoken memoir. In these pages, you will encounter a man who believes in making one's life count, who is committed to a humble knowing of self, and who loves the world. Join him here as he opens to the grace of finding Home.