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Eat, Pray, Love: It's Not That Bad



I went to see Eat, Pray, Love last weekend with my wife. I bought this New York Times bestseller for her just before our taking a trip to New York City for Labor Day last year, so it only seemed appropriate to take her to the film when it hit the big screen.
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O Adventure, Where Art Thou



It's funny how quickly life takes a turn on you. One moment you're playing a kid-concocted combo of Indiana Jones, Star Wars - with a liberal dose of Rambo - and The Karate Kid, tossed in to keep things interesting, and the next you're married with kids, have an 8 to 5 job, bills, a house, and all the trimmings. Just like that, the time has flown. And lately, as I've come up for a breath of air, I've decided that somewhere along the line I've gotten lost.
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Drawing a Line in the Sand



Well, I am home. It's been a journey, to say the least.

India for me has been a love-hate relationship. I didn't think I could cope at first. It was an odd feeling, me being the adventurous world traveler. It felt like too much-too many old women with hands left as stubs from leprosy, too many five year old girls with tangled hair and dirty faces, looking at me with pleading eyes.
 
Too many sad stories. How do you reconcile your life after something like that?
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In the Eyes of the Children



Every day we walk through our neighborhood, about 10 minutes to the children's home. On our way, we pass Raj's Shoppe where we buy milk, bread, and mango ice cream. We usually pass about 6 stray dogs, often picking though trash to find food. We cut through a field with a family of girls who run out dirty and barefoot from their tin shelter to shake our hands. It's so interesting how the foreig...
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The Power of Storytelling



Joshua had a flashy bright blue shirt that made him stand out from his friends. He was HIV positive, like the rest of the 13 kids he lived with, but it didn't stop him from running around, popping balloons, and constantly grinning. Years earlier, his mother was in the final stages of AIDS. She couldn't get treatment, and soon the pain became unbearable. She set fire to herself-burning alive in order to escape this world. He was three years old at the time.
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Interview with Bruce Nuffer: Exploring the 180 Project



Wrecked recently had the chance to interrogate Bruce Nuffer of The House Studio concerning their new book 180. Enjoy.

What initially caused you to consider pursuing a project like 180?

We always create products that we personally want to use. In this case we wanted to experience what a responsible individual goes through when they question a long-held opinion that could not continue to stand in the face of new learning.
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Like a Boomerang: The Dark Night of the Soul



In pop culture, it's cool to explore your spirituality, escape religion, and search for God -- it's not cool to find him. It's definitely not cool to tell people once you do. In a spiritual age that celebrates authenticity over assurance, it seems that questions are the new answers. Rather than embracing doubt as a vehicle to truth, the two have become nearly indistinguishable. Blessed assuranc...
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Beautiful Letdowns: Redeeming Car Wrecks



I was the youth pastor at a San Diego church for a few years. One of the youth I had the privilege of encouraging was Andy Shirley, who would ask me questions about playing guitar and writing songs. He went off to college and changed his name (as many musicians do these days) to Andrew, then to Drew. Sean Combs changed his name to Puff Daddy and then to P. Diddy. I was glad Andy did not go with Drew Diddy, although I was kind of pulling for "Drew Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Drew."
 
Drew is currently the lead guitarist for a band called Switchfoot.
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I Have a Dream... For Haiti



If you are half way sane, afraid to step near the edge of a cliff, or need to live by a plan then it would probably be best if you stopped reading right now. There. I feel much better. Consider yourself warned. I have a crazy dream to share with you.
 
Imagine with me for a moment...
 
The scene opens on a rice patty as the sun is just beginning to rise. There is a slight mist rising from the green fields reaching up towards the heavens. Stillness permeates the air. As the camera fades out and pans to the left a city is revealed. The honking of horns, the yelling of voices, and the hum of city life shatter the stillness of the field. As the image zooms in, women sitting on the curb, selling their wares comes into focus. The camera moves down the pothole and trash filled street and settles on some men sitting on stools outside the remains of buildings.
 
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Book Review: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller



In A Million Miles in A Thousand Year's, Miller invites us to get off our recliners and stop living vicariously through other people's stories. His own awakening was sparked when he was approached by two producers about making a movie based on his life. In this process of going through the plot line for the movie, Don is slapped in the face with the reality that his real life was too boring to actually be a good plot.
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