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How many mornings do we choose email over meditation, or let deadlines pull rank on stretching, cuddling, or a glass of water swallowed slowly and appreciated? How habitually do we override the call from the interior of our being? The call to pray, or listen, or just to be fully awake in noticing what is being said to us — whether it’s our heart, the dog, the trees, or our fellow humans speaking to us?
Have mercy.
Keep them safe.
How lovely.
Courage, please.
I need you.
I love you.
Thank you.
Yes.
Prayer comes in all forms and every one spoken brings grace to the day. Our hearts are the altars.
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If you could make one wish for anything in the world — anything a person could actually grant — what would you wish for?
Now, imagine if people in your community actually came forward and granted that wish.
How would that extraordinary act of generosity affect you? Would it change your life?
Sure, it would. I say this because I work at Make-A-Wish, where granting wishes is our stock in trade. We grant wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. And we see lives changed every day.
We’ve been granting wishes since 1980, when a group of caring individuals granted the wish of a 7-year-old Phoenix boy with leukemia to be a police officer for a

Why let others torture you when you can cut out the middle man and do it yourself? In Nancy, Please, twenty-something Paul (Will Rogers) tries to retrieve a book from his former roommate, Nancy (Elonore Hendricks), a task complicated both by the fact that the woman appears to be an unholy gene-splice between the Marquis de Sade and a rabid pit bull, and by Paul’s seeming inability to disengage from her provocations.
In his feature film debut, director Andrew Semans has created a slyly disturbing tragicomedy that explores how a life strategy built around wallowing in one’s own victimhood can lead to a rapid, and quite mortifying, undoing.
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I was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner tonight. And I loved 85% of it. This makes me somewhat of a hypocrite because I often criticize a lot of the people in that room, and I especially single out the chuminess of the press with the government.
Now, I justify my participation in this bacchanal event by saying two things. I am a spy for our audience — it’s important to know how these things work at a

My sister and I are alike in many ways, but not when it comes to how we approach the gym. A few months ago, she asked me to put together a weight training program. She fared well for awhile, but soon got bored, not because of the activity, but because she was doing it by herself. Working out alone, day after day, she felt as though she was just running through the

Unlike the rest of the world’s democracies, the United States doesn’t use the metric system, doesn’t require employers to provide workers with paid vacations, hasn’t abolished the death penalty, and doesn’t celebrate May Day as an official national holiday.
Outside the U.S., May 1 is international workers’ day, observed with speeches, rallies, and demonstrations. Ironically, this celebration of working-class solidarity originated in the U.S. labor movement in the United States and soon spread around the world, but it never earned official recognition in this country. Since 2006, however, American unions and immigrant rights activists have resurrected May 1 as a day of

There’s no room in our homes we spend more time in than the bedroom. You can say I’m biased, but I think it’s the most important room in the house. The National Sleep Foundation has just released the results of its first-ever “Bedroom Poll,” which is full of information about how aspects of our bedrooms affect sleep life. The survey covered many aspects of bedroom life, from how much and how well we’re sleeping, to romance and intimacy, to how often we change our

Yes, Garret Dillahunt says, things do come full-circle.
Sitting in the press lounge of the Tribeca Film Festival, where he was talking about one of the films he had in the festival, Any Day Now, Dillahunt noted that, when he first started working professionally as an actor after getting out of grad school at New York University, he did a lot of comedic roles.
As a result, it took a while for him to get cast in bad-guy roles because casting agents only saw him playing benign, funny characters. But when black-hat roles came, they weren’t just bad guys but truly evil types, made to seem more so because the boyish Dillahunt, 47, did and said absolutely frightening things with a smile that accented his Tom Sawyer-choirboy good looks.
He did it particularly well as memorable recurring characters on such TV series as Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Life, Burn Notice and, particularly, David Milch’s Deadwood, in which he played not one but two different – and chilling – characters during the show’s three seasons.
So when he auditioned to play Burt Chance on the Fox network’s hit sitcom, Raising Hope, which just finished its second season, Dillahunt found himself running into a new obstacle.
“For the first time in a long time, I had a director express concern whether I could do comedy,” Dillahunt says with a chuckle.
No longer. Dillahunt’s Burt is one of the show’s many highpoints – a man-child content to struggle and aspire while running his own lawn service and thinking of get-rich-quick schemes like yogurt in manly flavors (beef stew?) that would be marketed as Brogurt.
But Dillahunt couldn’t be farther from Burt Chance territory with Any Day Now, Travis Fine’s new film based on a true story, which had won the Heineken audience award for best feature at Tribeca last

There seems to be a belief that “faith” is the rejection of the world as it is; a retreat in to fantasy and wishful thinking. As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “Faith means not wanting to know what is true.”
Although it has become common to think of “faith” in this way — as the blind acceptance of unquestionable, usually religious, doctrine — this definition stems from extremist positions, and is not what theologians typically mean by the word “faith.” In his classic book, “Stages of Faith” James Fowler provides a deeper insight: “Faith is a person’s or group’s way of moving into life. It is our way of finding coherence in and giving meaning to the multiple forces and relationships that make up our lives.”
This definition begins with the recognition that we all understand the world differently, because we all have created individual ways to comprehend and control our experiences. This process began in childhood, as we instinctively sought safety and acceptance in a complex and uncertain world, and built mental constructs of “how things are.” These mental constructs vary based on the intensity of our experiences and our natural inclinations, and we may live our entire lives relying on these childhood visions, assuming that the way we see the world is objectively true, yet remain completely unaware that we have made it

When I recently met author, strategist and coach Tony Robbins backstage at a taping of Oprah Winfrey’s ground-breaking series Lifeclass, the first thing I was struck by was his sheer size. He is a somewhat startling six-feet-seven, yet he comes across like a loving, gentle giant, and when he talks to you he gives you his full magnetic attention. He is known for being an exuberantly charming, inspiring, energetic and articulate speaker and is also a huggably nice, caring person and a generous humanitarian. The New York Times calls Tony Robbins “the high priest of human potential.” In the course of his impressive career, he has advised a diversity of luminaries including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa and three

The dialectic is that water is divine and hellish, delicious and deadly. And the Rhone in Switzerland is the poster child, spilling from the roof of a continent. It is a powerful waterway that lights cities, and slakes the thirst of millions. And at the same time it is a paean to peace and a cause of war.
Water is over-tapped and under-tended in many places around the world — but not

Well known to be one of the world’s premier wildlife destinations, our senior travel designer, Samantha, took a trip to the Okavango Delta recently to check if it really is what it says it is.
The slideshow below is one of her days exploring the northern delta’s floodplains and waterways whilst staying at the stylish Vumbura Plains.
We’ll let you come to your own conclusions.
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Just five minutes from the airstrip en-route to the lodge, we happened across this gorgeous little floodplain which spilled across the road. Along with the thrill of simply arriving in the Delta, the thought of driving through this seemingly endless pond was exhilarating.
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One of the most surprising of all New Testament passages comes towards the beginning of the Why Stay in the Church?where, after hearing some difficult preaching, some of Jesus’s disciples “returned to their former way of life and no longer walked with him”?
Returned to their former way of life after having been with Jesus? It seems almost unbelievable. So many believers today would (literally) give our right arms to see and hear what the disciples saw and heard–to witness Jesus’s astonishing miracles, and hear the carpenter from Nazareth spin out his parables, as he did in Galilee and Judea all those years ago.
How, we wonder, could anyone walk away from Jesus after having walked with him?
Yet it’s really not that hard to understand. Sometimes, for example, we turn away from God’s invitation to conversion out of

Now that the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has hit forty-something, the regulars have found a groove. What’s unexpected is the extent to which a new generations of festers is making it their own.
Saturday’s acts included Cee Lo Green, Feist, DJ Soul Sister, Kristin Diable, Empress Hotel and an accompanying field scattered with hipsters. I don’t consider the label hipsters a pajorative, I consider them Us 20 Years

This is part of our new series “Gen: Change,” in partnership with Youth Service America, featuring stories from the 25 most influential and powerful young people in the world. Click here to read more about Madelyn and her amazing story.
I jumped out of the car and ran inside my house. On the kitchen table, a package from Uganda was waiting for

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant scored 25 points and hit the game-winning jumper from the foul line with 1.5 seconds left to lift the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 99-98 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.Durant maneuvered to the free throw line and got off a high-arcing shot over Shawn Marion that hit off the front of the rim and then off the backboard before falling through.The defending NBA champion Mavericks, who were out of timeouts, could not get a shot off before the buzzer.Dirk Nowitzki scored 11 of his 25 points in the final 5 minutes and hit two free throws with 9 seconds left to put Dallas ahead. Jason Terry added 20 points and Marion scored 17.Russell Westbrook led the Thunder with 28 points and Serge Ibaka chipped in 22 points and five blocks.James Harden scored 19 in his first game since suffering a concussion when the Los Angeles Lakers’ Metta World Peace hit him with an elbow last Sunday and earned a seven-game suspension.The second-seeded Thunder played catch-up most of the night and had to wipe away a 94-87 deficit in the final 2 1/2 minutes to come away with the win. Durant capped a string of seven straight Oklahoma City points on a right-handed slam with 1:27 remaining.Dallas went back ahead with an out-of-control possession, with Harden knocking the ball away from Jason Kidd and then Nowitzki losing it, too, before Vince Carter missed a desperation baseline jumper. Ian Mahinmi rebounded the miss and got fouled, stepping to the line to hit two free throws with 1:03 to play.Durant drove to set up Ibaka’s three-point play at the other end, bumping the Thunder ahead 97-96. Nowitzki committed a turnover and Durant missed along the baseline before the two All-Stars came through in the clutch — with Durant getting the last chance.Durant, who hit the third and most recent buzzer-beater in his career to beat Dallas in the fourth game of the regular season, had another dramatic shot in store.Considering his dominance in last year’s West finals, when he averaged 32.2 points, Nowitzki had been relatively quiet until the final 5 minutes. That’s when he put Dallas in control with a personal 7-1 run, finished off by his three-point play that made it 92-85 with 3:23 to go.He then answered Westbrook’s layup with a foul line jumper to restore the seven-point advantage, but it didn’t prove to be enough.The Mavs had eliminated the Thunder in five games in last year’s Western Conference finals, winning both games in Oklahoma City and overcoming fourth-quarter deficits of 15 and eight points in the final two games.This time, the roles were reversed.The Mavericks opened an early eight-point lead as Durant missed his first four shots, only to give it back when Durant hit his next three to fuel a 12-3 comeback. The game continued to swing back and forth, with Terry hitting a 3-pointer and a banked-in jumper during a string of nine straight points to make it 35-27 after a rare Nowitzki basket.Ibaka had a pair of two-handed slams during Oklahoma City’s immediate 10-1 response, only for Dallas to recover for a 51-48 halftime lead.Another 9-0 burst, featuring Terry’s fourth 3-pointer, gave Dallas a 73-66 edge in the final minute of the third quarter.Nowitzki, like Durant, came out cold and missed his first four shots and seven of his first nine. He even missed a first-quarter free throw, a rare sight in last year’s West finals when he went 59 for 61 at the line and made all 24 of his attempts to set an NBA record in Game 1.Game notes A shot originally ruled a 3-pointer by Terry in the final minute of the first quarter was corrected to a 2 when instant replay showed his left foot was on the line. … Oklahoma City won three of the four regular-season games between the teams. … Backup center Nazr Mohammed was dropped from the Thunder rotation. He played in 63 of 66 regular-season games but didn’t play in the final two games against Dallas despite being healthy.
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Tom Torluemke — whose expansive show opened Thursday at Linda Warren — is a marvelous, prolific, once-troubled, insightful, gentle, considerate artist of magnitude. His art is invariably autobiographical and touches on his difficult youth with an abusive father and a loving, deaf-mute uncle with whom a young Torluemke could only communicate by passing drawings back and forth. Many artists start young, but I know of no other for whom it was a sole means of communication with a close family member. Obsessively, Torluemke makes art every day and it keeps him sane, in touch, loving and

Who among us has not made a plan to get up in the morning and exercise, but then hit snooze one time too many, sleeping through our morning jog?
We may have been super-inspired by the incredible brain-boosting properties of exercise. We may have had every intention to start an exercise plan and stick to it. But then… We

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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. — Ovid
I love the quote above from the ancient Roman Ovid: He reminds us that for millennia farmers have known that every so often they must allow a field to “rest” or go fallow between plantings. Fallow land is that which has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been purposely left unseeded for one or more growing seasons so the soil can rest and regenerate the minerals and other elements needed to grow vital, productive crops. Metaphorically speaking, our growing “field” is our mind and our

I wrote a book titled Myths of the Asanas. This was before I found out about the real myth of the asanas… that most all of the ones practiced these days are less than 100 years old. Not

Governor Jerry Brown responded to questions from Fresh Dialogues Tuesday about high speed rail and electric vehicles at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s CEO Summit in Silicon Valley. Is he still an advocate for high speed rail in light of pressure, negative HSR reports and the sorry state of California’s budget? The emphatic answer is: YES.
And he’s got a historic precedent to support his case — from Medieval France no less.
“It’s a very powerful idea that could become something of great importance to California,” he said. “New ideas are never received as well as old ideas, but I think California is the one place where high speed rail can get its start for the United States.”
But with California’s budget in the red and more spending cuts on the table, can California afford to spend a penny on high speed rail?
The 74-year-old governor took a page from history and replied with a question: “How did the peasants of medieval France afford to build the cathedral of Chartres?”
He then enlightened Fresh Dialogues with this answer, “They did it slowly… they did it with community investment and a great belief in the future.”
This echoes Brown’s 2012 State of the State Speech in which he said, “Those who believe that California is in decline will naturally shrink back from such a strenuous

There is a difference between an apparition and the real thing — and the same can be said of a Broadway show. It can be rendered cinematically, as in Ghost, The Musical, thereby becoming a musical that thinks it’s a movie. The production, based on the 1990 film, dispenses with theatricality or stagecraft, though the magic effects are nifty.
Yet a banal score and headache-inducing graphics don’t seem to bother the crowds, who clearly came for a recap of the Demi Moore-Patrick Swayze hit. Sam Wheat (Richard Fleeshman), a Wall Street banker with hot artist girlfriend Molly (Caissie Levy), is living the good life in a trendy Brooklyn

Last week Denver Post Editorial Page Editor Curtis Hubbard fired back at all those people who’ve said The Post’s commentary pages favor right-leaning points of view over left-leaning ones, or vice versa.
Hubbard presented the results of a bean-counting project conducted during the first quarter of 2012. He categorized editorials and columns on the Post’s commentary pages as being left of center, right of center, or “nonpartisan or centrist.”
In his weekly column, Hubbard wrote that the majority of the opinion content was “nonpartisan or centrist” (43 percent of “local columns,” 55 percent of editorials, and 54 percent of syndicated columns).
Partisan opinion content was found to be mostly left of center according to Hubbard’s admittedly subjective count. Local columns were 32 percent left-of-center versus 25 percent right-of-center, editorials 26 percent versus 19 percent, and syndicated columnists 29 percent left-leaning versus 18 percent right-leaning.
In his column, Hubbard claimed that he had all the data in a spreadsheet.
Great, I thought, he can just shoot it over to me.
So I asked him for it, because media bean-counting is fun to audit, for me. And it can provide an excellent starting point for debates about the media.
“I hadn’t considered making it available for public review,” he emailed me.
This was a surprise to hear from an outfit that wants Mitt Romney to release his tax returns for public