Tag: moral courage

• The Truth … Crucified

  A young man living on the edge of poverty in 1970s San Diego takes a graveyard dishwasher job and witnesses injustice against vulnerable workers. When he speaks out, he loses everything—discovering firsthand what it means to suffer for truth.

  RMDell’Orfano

  April 8, 2026

  Autobio

  dignity of work, ethical conflict, faith under pressure, immigrant labor, memoir excerpt, moral courage, Path Perilous, poverty and survival, sacrifice and consequence, San Diego 1970, social inequality, speaking truth, spiritual journey, standing up for others, workplace injustice

• Living Deliberately—In Quiet Desperation

  My soul longed to stand tall, even as it remained shackled to the cowardice of my flesh.

  RMDell’Orfano

  January 21, 2026

  Autobio

  1960s America, academic materialism, faith and providence, Harvard, Henry David Thoreau, Jr., Living Deliberately, Martin Luther King, memoir excerpt, MIT, moral courage, Path Perilous, pilgrimage, Primitive diets, quiet desperation, Ralph Waldo Emerson, roots and branches, spiritual search, transcendentalism, Walden Pond