Minstrels, monks, milkmen - what's the connection? This book is the story of one man who lived as a Carthusian hermit, became in turn a Cistercian monk, an Oxfam worker and a milkman, and who now finds himself at the age of forty a vagrant minstrel, an agent provocateur for peace and justice, trying to serve the cause of the dispossessed peoples of the world through song and silence, flamenco and his spinning wheel. An interesting rag-bag of experiences in itself. But in telling how he discovered silence, committed concern for the dispossessed, how to make a guitar out of waste wood from the monastery dump and many other things, Paul Baker offers his particular 'Monk's Story' as an example of the kind of creative surprise which most of us have locked away inside us. Above all, the book expresses his own conviction that each person is uniquely and irreplaceably special, with astonishing possibilities for discovery and growth. He suggests that in dispossessing much of the rest of the...

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