Starr Daily separates the silences that destroy from the silences that redeem. He remembers his father standing wordless at the county jail bars, and the Redeemer who came into a dark punishment cell and spoke no word at all. He follows one quiet line from Thoreau at Walden Pond through Tolstoy to Gandhi. Then he asks campers heading home from the camps to fill their own silent spaces with the Sermon on the Mount.
