It Is Always Worth While

Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor –
And this, and so much more? –
It is impossible to say just what I mean!

– T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

Sr. Pat Farrell—Lifting More than Spirits

When Sister Pat Farrell joined The Yard, a local gym in San Francisco, to improve her health and fitness, she had no idea that she would be doing some real