From the Publisher by Deverick Martin If you didn’t take a few minutes to fill out our reader survey last month, please do so now; there’s still time to enter the May 1 drawing for $150 in products or services advertised in our pages. Everyone who completes the survey qualifies for a free subscription. To date, I have received responses from only about one out of every thousand readers, and I would like to get a lot more input. Frankly, this is the poorest response I’ve ever gotten to a reader survey. If you think the work represented in these pages is important, this would be a great time to let me know. You might also think of this as the best odds ever for winning our drawing! I have a number of ideas for future directions for our work, and I want your input to help me in my decision making. My intent is to focus on unmet needs, so I would like to know what you perceive those to be. I need you to be my eyes and ears to let me know what is going on in the world around you and what needs this publication can meet. I believe that we are transitioning to an era of less top-down, corporate-type ways of functioning to more synergistic, cooperative ways. I also believe in walking my talk about authentic living. For me, that means that rather than taking a leadership role with a personal agenda, I choose to provide a forum in which differing viewpoints (leading to personal empowerment and authentic living) can be shared, and that I make decisions in a way that includes you, the reader. I believe that The New Times has two primary jobs: one, to inspire readers to bring forth their unique gifts by offering articles that inspire, and, second, to offer how-to information through articles as well as through the products and services that our advertisers provide. I recognize that I am in many ways in a position of privilege, and that my choices have far-reaching ramifications to an important community. My way of taking responsibility for my decisions is seek your input, to listen to it, and to consider it. While the number of responses to the reader survey to date is lower than in past years, I am quite pleased that we received a record number of letters to the editor this past month, all of which are printed in this issue. There have been many months that we did not receive a single letter to the editor. I like hearing from you. I want to be on the cutting edge, so when we don’t get any feedback, it leaves me wondering if our content is too bland, or perhaps even not important to the community I wish to serve. I don’t think that the world has ever been hungrier for love and healing. Won’t you help empower my work to manifest love and healing?