If you are like me and read as much of The AZR as is fit for a basically optimistic person, the constant drumbeat of depressing news can induce downheartedness and hopelessness. There's a continual litany of bad news, Covid deaths, attempts to restrict voting rights, the lack of immigration reform, Jan 6th, war in Ukraine... tons of stuff to get you really and utterly depressed about life here on the planet. I am lucky however to have daughter who teaches education at Deakin University in Australia and has somehow, through a strange act of genetic mutation, avoided the manic depressive gene which pops out with alarming regularity among other family members. She sends me lists of positive things and I confess that once I have read them, they do cheer me so I thought I might pass a few of them on, in case people needed cheering. Vaccine distribution is going well world wide, cancer mortality rates have dropped by a third since the 90s in the US, 8 million children have been vaccinated in Uganda against polio in three days, child mortality rates have decreased, aversion therapy has been outlawed in Canada and France, fatal police shooting in the US dropped 13% 20/21, child marriage has been banned in The Philippines, farmers in the UK are being subsidized to "rewild" their land. Giraffe populations across Africa have rebounded by 20%. Its actually quite cheap to save the world, use less energy and save the planet. Have you seen what the Webb Telescope is going to do? Wow! The origins of the universe!! This is so exciting. It makes you glad to be alive. We need to all cheer up and look on the bright side of life.