"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 Eldercare: Interviews with a number of wonderful and insightful family care-givers taking care of aging parents at home. Insights and information on resources, planning, daily regimens, nutrition, health care, insurance, physical and mental exercise and much more.