CAN MONEY BUY HAPPINESS?
Well, only up to a point:
"They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong.  At least up to a point.  People's emotional well-being -- happiness -- increases along with their income up to about $75,000, researchers report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  For folks making less than that, said Angus Deaton, an economist at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University, "Stuff is so in your face it's hard to be happy. It interferes with your enjoyment"...Happiness got better as income rose, but the effect leveled out at $75,000, Deaton said. On the other hand, their overall sense of success or well-being continued to rise as their earnings grew beyond that point.  "Giving people more income beyond 75K is not going to do much for their daily mood ... but it is going to make them feel they have a better life," Deaton said in an interview.  Not surprisingly, someone who moves from a $100,000-a-year job to one paying $200,000 realizes an improved sense of success. That doesn't necessarily mean they are happier day to day, Deaton said."

People with Moebius Syndrome and other facial differences know:  money won't buy you happiness, and neither will "beauty" as it is conventionally defined today...

GOOD NEWS FOR PARENTS
It should be a normal flu season:
"Remember the lines last winter for hard-to-find flu shots, the closed schools and the craziness about an H1N1 pandemic? Health officials say all those are things of the past: The pandemic is officially over, there's plenty of vaccine available already, and this year, one shot will deal with most of the different flus expected this winter."

"The story that you have to tell, the message you have to convey, may not seem unusual to you.  But the things I have to say are not that unusual either.  It's the same old thing:  love yourself, find your sources of faith and work them, nurture relationships, keep trying...We each have the responsibility to help each other tell these stories, to remind those in our purview of the things that we all already know--that people are basically good as well as flawed, that the barriers are in our own minds.  We have to keep reminding and reminding and reminding each other to keep telling our stories, to remind ourselves and each other that the fear of embarrassment turns out to be a predecessor to grace."--David Roche, THE CHURCH OF 80% SINCERITY.













 





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