At home At Home by Thomas Grady Haversack has been a home to me. We have always described Haversack as a community, not simply a publication. Of course I have experienced other Franciscan communities, having had the privileges of working with the Franciscan Federation of the United States, the International Franciscan Conference and Franciscans International, to name a few special groups which have enhanced my Franciscan life and connectedness and broadened my horizons. But Haversack is even more than a community to me, more than an extended family.
Home is the best word.
Those of us who have been with the project for more than two decades can say that we grew up together in our Franciscan understanding. So those sisters and brothers with whom I worked on Haversack really are my true sisters and brothers, friends who are also family. Perhaps I feel this way because we did so much of our work around kitchen or dining room tables. We ate there, spread out the paper drafts of articles there, scrutinized budgets there, and most often shared our insights, hopes, visions, and strategies to bring our Franciscan treasures to the creation of a more just, peaceful, and unified world there at the table, usually over a glass of wine or a keg of beer. Then we washed the dishes and rewrote the articles.