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For Too Long, Reporters For The Big Media Outlets Have Been Fixated On Novelty, Always Moving Too Quickly Onto The Next Big Score Or The Next Hot Get. Paradoxically, In These Days Of Instant Communication And Sixty-minute News Cycles, It's Actually Easier To Miss Information We Might Otherwise Pay Attention To. That's Why We Need Stories To Be Covered And Re-covered Until They Filter Up Enough To Become Part Of The Cultural Bloodstream.

There Is A Purpose To Our Lives, Even If It Is Sometimes Hidden From Us, And Even If The Biggest Turning Points And Heartbreaks Only Make Sense As We Look Back, Rather Than As We Are Experiencing Them. So We Might As Well Live Life As If - As The Poet Rumi Put It - Everything Is Rigged In Our Favor.

Why Do We Spend So Much Of Our Limited Time On This Earth Focusing On All The Things That Our Eulogies Will Never Cover?

When Your House Is Burning Down, You Don't Worry About The Remodeling.

More Young People Are Volunteering Than Ever Before. More People Are Including Service To Others On Their Busy Lives' To Do List. The Promise Of America Is Embedded Deep In Our Dna, Calling Us To A Much Less Shallow Search For Happiness And Meaning.