Cheer Up. You've Never Had It So Good!

I think people should focus a little more on the positives. Living today is undoubtedly complicated, but we are so lucky to be alive in 2016. A short list of benefits include: the nearly unlimited miracles of modern science and medical care, a standard of living immeasurably higher than our ancestors, and a bewildering variety of options of ... just about everything.

The availability of the 'World Wide Web' is something to which we've become quite accustomed. Even after 25 years, I still try to appreciate how it has improved and simplified life. For example, I sat here in my living room and organized and paid for actual airplane and hotel reservations. Now there's a room waiting for us in January in a time zone 15 hours ahead of Vancouver.