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Product Description 'We wish that every child on the planet makes a wish for the whole world tonight.' From the Inside Flap How can a family create a daily ritual that passes on high ideals, celebrates the spiritual significance of holidays, and focuses attention on easing the suffering of all beings? Keren Clark Posey has created just such a ritual to share with her children. Each night they gather and take turns choosing a 'Wish for the World.' The wishes are simple and direct. They cover such areas of concern as the environment, the earth's creatures, war, disease, famines, and genocide: Tonight we wish that all adults will mirror tolerance for our children and others. We wish for everyone to work harder at resolving conflicts. We wish to always remember that the earth is alive. Imagining the power these wishes could generate if her small circle could be united with others, she has created a book of daily 'wishes,' three hundred and sixty-five wishes for the world, with the help of her twin sons. Each wish is accompanied by an inspirational quotation. It is her hope that you will join her each day in Wishing for the World. About the Author Authors of Wish for the World Keren L. Clark was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She graduated from Scottsdale High School in Arizona and attended Pitzer College in southern California. At Pitzer, Keren began to look beyond her conservative upbringing and to develop a social, political, and spiritual consciousness informed by a growing desire to reach out and learn more about other cultures. She spent a year abroad, learning to speak French fluently and befriending a group of Laotian and Vietnamese refugees. The experience made her particularly aware of the sufferings of people fleeing war and genocide. Back at Pitzer for her senior year, she focussed on classes in sociology, anthropology, and spirituality - a curriculum designed to deepen her understanding of human culture around the world. Shortly after her graduation from Pitzer, Keren moved to San Francisco. While living in the Bay Area, she became involved with a spiritual collective known as 'Reclaiming.' She studied Wicca as a means of further expanding an already diverse spiritual foundation. In 1984, she decided to pursue a career as a Marriage and Family Therapist, enrolling in the Graduate Psychology Program at Antioch University in San Francisco. While there, she encountered Tibetan Buddhism and became more and more convinced that spirituality and a sense of belonging to a larger community are two of the core needs of all human beings. She continues to draw inspiration from Buddhist, Christian, and Wiccan sources in her own spiritual practice.After taking her degree from Antioch in 1987, Keren became a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has worked in agency settings, as well as in private practice where the cornerstone of her therapeutic technique is to guide people on their own healing journeys through a combination of spiritual and psychological techniques. Currently, she lives in Prescott, Arizona, with her three children - Ethan and Dyson, co-authors of Wish for the World, and Sadie.Ethan and Dyson Posey were born at 7:00 p.m. and 7:09 p.m. respectively on December 19, 1992 in Flagstaff, Arizona. They were six and one half weeks premature and spent their first four weeks of life in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Nursery of Flagstaff Medical Center. Upon discharge, they were small but otherwise quite healthy.The family lived in a small rural community outside of Flagstaff. The boys spent their days climbing trees, playing in the mud and ranging around the forest and high desert prairie that surrounded their home. Spirituality, tolerance and religion were frequent topics of conversation. When it was time for