Synopsis

Insightful and heartwarming true stories from a twentieth-century life fill these pages. Oklahoma author Armin Saeger’s Quaker roots shape the man he becomes and the work he undertakes. These real-life snapshots take us from early childhood, in Oklahoma and Missouri as well as Philadelphia, through WWII experiences as a Conscientious Objector, then into the author’s professional life as a social worker and psychotherapist. He reveals compassion, intelligence, and humor in Sowing My Quaker Oats.

Experience with the author the pains and joys of life, and step into history rarely heard: the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, human guinea pig experiments with infectious hepatitis and frostbite, the civil rights movement, Native American issues in the 1960s, individual and group mental health approaches, and see the toad that jumped too far.