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On Butterflies of Wisdom today, Best-Selling Author, Win Kelly Charles and Juan Carlos Gill welcomes Jeff Rasley. Jeff is the author of nine books; the most recent is Hero's Journey: John Ritter, the Chip Hilton of Goshen, Indiana; a Memoir.  He has published numerous articles in academic and mainstream periodicals, including Newsweek, Chicago Magazine, ABA Journal, Family Law Review, American Athenaeum, Pacific Magazine, Indy’s Child, The Journal of Communal Societies, The Chrysalis Reader, Faith & Fitness Magazine, and Friends Journal.  He is an award-winning photographer and his pictures taken in the Himalayas and Caribbean, and Pacific Islands have been published in several journals.  He has appeared as a featured guest on over seventy radio programs. Rasley has engaged in social activism and philanthropic efforts from an early age.  In high school, he co-founded the Goshen Walk for Hunger.  In law school, he was an advocate for renters' rights as the leader of the first rent strike in Indiana, and he served as a lobbyist and president of the Indianapolis Tenants Association.  As an attorney for Legal Services organization, he was lead counsel on two class action suits on behalf of prisoners which resulted in judgments requiring the construction of two new jails in Central Indiana.  Jeff was the lead plaintiff in a class action requiring the clean-up of the White River after an industrial chemical spill polluted it.  Jeff is the founder and president of the Basa Village Foundation USA, which raises money for culturally sensitive development work in the Basa area of Nepal.  He currently serves as an officer or director for six nonprofit corporations. Jeff recently ended his practice of law as the senior partner of Rasley & Wood, P.A.  He is a partner in the e-book publishing enterprise Midsummer Books and provides writer coaching services.  He is U.S. liaison for the Nepal-based Himalayan expedition company, Adventure GeoTreks Ltd.  He has taught classes for IUPUI Continuing Ed. The program, Indiana Writers Center, and Marian University.  He currently teaches philosophy of philanthropy at Butler University. Jeff is a graduate of the University of Chicago, A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, All-Academic All-State Football Team and letter winner in swimming and football; Indiana University School of Law, J.D. cum laude, Moot Court and Indiana Law Review; Christian Theological Seminary, M.Div. Magna cum laude, co-valedictorian and Faculty Award Scholar.  He has been admitted to the Indiana, U.S. District Court, and U.S. Supreme Court Bars. For chairing the Indiana-Tennessee Civic Memorial Commission Rasley and the Commission received Proclamations of Salutation from the Governors of Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania and he was made an honorary Lieutenant Colonel Aide-de-Camp of the Alabama State Militia, a Kentucky Colonel and honorary Citizen of Tennessee.  He was given a Key to the City of Indianapolis for serving as an intern to Mayor Hudnut and preparing a report on the safety conditions of all Indy Parks. Rasley has received the Man of the Year award from the Arthur Jordan YMCA and the Alumni Service Award from the University of Chicago. Jeff is an avid outdoorsman and recreational athlete.  He leads trekking-mountaineering expeditions in Nepal and has solo-kayaked around seve