What if you slept?
And what if,
in your sleep you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream you went to heaven
and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think then we could have peace in heaven on earth

DID YOU KNOW

That if we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people,
with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following.

There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing.
70 would be unable to read.
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP
Stanford University, School of Medicine

A FEW WORDS FROM CELESTE

While I was making this page I happened to catch a TV special starring Jann Arden.
I admire this performer (although she doesn't like to be called that but prefers "presenter")
because of her honesty, integrity and raw genuity. She hasn't allowed her success to overshadow who she is. She always remembers to think about, and be grateful for, what her parents taught her. She said that in order to become a loving decent human being we must experience adversity. I agree with her unfortunately. Perhaps this is the only way to stop the hate, to stop the lack of understanding and to stop judging people. Life is too short.

If I could have only one wish
I would ask that there be peace in the world.

Celeste