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[sageandsea]

Thanks, forestdweller, I needed this today.

From Rob Brezney's book:

* The crime rate just keeps declining year after year. Human life expectancy is an amazing 78 years and still climbing.
Levels of literacy and education and political freedom and wealth are steadily growing all over the world.
Death rates from cancer are declining. Child abduction by strangers has dropped precipitously.
In 60 years, there hasn't been a lower birth rate among teenage girls than there is now.

* The world's largest freshwater system, the Great Lakes, is dramatically
purifying itself of the pollutants that human beings dumped into it. The
number of America's black elected officials has sextupled since 1970.
Rising rates of intermarriage are helping to dissipate ethnic and religious
strife worldwide. The world's largest private bank, Citigroup, has agreed
to stop financing projects that damage sensitive ecosystems. The giant
timber company, Congolaise Industrielle des Bois, voluntarily agreed to
stop cutting down trees in a virgin rain forest in the Congo.

* The miracle of your breathing transpires about 10 million times a year,
even though you never have to think about it. Every second the sun
generously transforms four million tons of itself into energy and bestows
it on us free of charge. Diamonds rain from the sky on Uranus and
Neptune. With every dawn, when first light penetrates the sea, many
seahorse colonies perform a dance to the sun. The World Health
Organization reports that over 100 million acts of sexual intercourse,
involving more than 200 million partners, take place on the earth every
24 hours.

* Most HMO executives now believe prayer and meditation can expedite
the healing process. Vast supplies of frozen natural gas lie beneath the
oceans, harboring more potential energy than all the world's oil reserves,
and could be mined with the right technology. Each of the 50 trillion cells
in your body can be considered a sentient being in its own right, and they
all act together as a community, performing an ongoing act of prodigious
collaboration.

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[lady-b-ashley.livejournal.com]

What a wonderfully pleasant thing to share! It's good to know that there's still some good left in this world (LOTR).

Now, if only we could conquer Office Vampires.....