You operate in diamonds as they are, well, so brilliant. Unlike the gas or oil man, you shine up well.

President John F. Kennedy, both warrior and peace maker, as leader of the free world, stared down The Evil Empire at Cuba. He also created the Peace Corps.

The 5th of May is not Mexico's Independence Day, but rather a great victory over France with American help in 1862. It is a festival day in America and Mexico.

How heart warming to see and hear American soldiers being diverted from Iraq to give food aid and child care in famine areas before coming home. Brilliant!

The smiling faces of American soldiers distribute food in central America on their way home from duty in Iraq is immensely wise therapy. Well done, US Military!

Examples of happiness as being deeper than self gratification can be seen in the lifestyles between more God loving democratic Greece with self centered Romans with horses as gods.

We all know the good feeling we got as boy or girl scouts when we helped a little old lady across the street. Our cultural model has had us be trained to do a good deed every day, so by dinner time you might a frantic scout looking for a little old lady on a corner. Science now shows that that state of mind creates a long living, healthy, happy person, far above the average.

Alexander the Great was having his people create the greater new Athens at the mouth of the Nile. But his men worried that he wandered west for a holy man and almost died in the sand. They met at an oasis,blessed each other.

It seems the more fanatical that our specific version of God or Allah, the more bloodshed that just seems to have no end in sight. Why not just live a holy life?

The life of Leonardo da Vinci is a look inside a profound genius that can help us concentrate of issues that matter and how to bridge chasms, not enlarge them. That would be a pleasant change.