Friday, October 07, 2005

Happiness is...

"Does the United States strike you as a happy country? July 1776, when Thomas Jefferson claimed the pursuit of happiness as a basic human right, might have been the last time that happiness was officially proposed as a national objective. But in Bhutan - as reported in the Science Times on Tuesday - the question of national happiness is still up for discussion, thanks to a monarch who insisted, nearly a generation ago, that gross national happiness is more important than gross national product."

We need more thinking along these lines...let's look at the big picture. (This photo is the new nickel, we'll be seeing these soon.)