What could be better than watching the economy of nearly every country collapse as we speak ?

I'll tell you what !

It's here in the beautiful, middle-class, luxury and comfort of the High Point Coffee Shop on Union Avenue in mid-town Memphis near the University of Tennessee with students, faculty and friends from all over the world, just sitting here enjoying iced cupcakes and lattes, listening to Count Basie and the Beatles, working on their mid-terms, chatting about the sunshine and the blue skies, changing babies diapers, sitting on the patio with their schnauzers, surfing the web for this and that and baring naked toes under the tables, starry eyed about the coming spring weather.

Kites and dogs with frisbees, banana splits and snow cones, the art students with their brushes and their canvases on the lawns, picnic blankets under the oak trees, Sid waxing his muscle car, Suzy running a couple of laps around the campus, Mom having her nails done, Grandma baking a strudel, Leave It to Beaver on the tv, pitching and catching the football or the baseball with your grandson, playing the piano for your pals, studying the Torah at your synagogue, the Koran at your Mosque and the disciples of Christ at your church, listening to the high school band rehearsal for the spring concert, taking in a couple of hours of flight time in your Cessna, biking through the forest, walking around the block in your neighborhood, waving to your friends, kissing your children, your wife or sweetheart, visiting the children of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and thanking God for the beautiful day that He's made.

We're teachers, doctors, lawyers, bricklayers, pastors, rabbis, students, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers, builders and architects, politicians, policemen, musicians, artists, and Realtors©.

We can't ignore the problems causing millions of our friends and neighbors to suffer horrifically, catastrophically.

We'll find answers together and make the world a better place to live.

I thank the Creator for allowing me to live in the greatest place in the known universe...here on Earth with you !

There's someone out there that's bigger than you and me and He loves us.

Success is waking up and getting out of bed each morning.