Desmond Gets Free
A story for all ages by Matt Meyer
Illustrated by Khim Fam
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Every morning Desmond the mouse wakes with the sunrise and spends the day playing in the beautiful meadow where he lives. And every night he goes to sleep under the starry sky. That is until one night he wakes up and finds an elephant asleep on his tail! Desmond asks for help from every kind of animal passing by but no one wants to disturb the sleeping giant. How will Desmond get free?
Desmond Gets Free won a Nautilus Award for social justice in Children’s Fiction
The Sanctuary Boston Album
Matt serves as Director of Operation & Community Life for Sanctuary Boston, and is also the drummer in the Sanctuary’s house band. In 2025 Sanctuary released this album of original music.
The Garden
SAB Choral Arrangement
Song by Peter Mayer & arrangement by Matt Meyer
“The Cherub and the Virgin Mary, the Buddha and the Garden Gnome, all the garden statuary, talked in Spring of how things grow…”