"Imagine if three or four times a week, every week, we had an airline crash somewhere in America the magnitude of TWA Flight 800. Imagine if twice a month an ocean liner left port somewhere in America and sank like the Titanic. Imagine if once a month, every month, like clockwork in cities across America, terrorists leveled a building like they leveled the World Trade Center -- killing more than 2,700. Imagine the outrage. Every year such disaster happens on American roads. To the tune of about 42,000 dead in traffic accidents. Each year, every year. But, it doesn't just happen here. It happens worldwide, one accident at a time. Those accidents killed 1.26 million men, women and children worldwide in 2000. Twenty-five percent of all fatal injuries worldwide, in fact, occured in auto accidents. War accounted for 6 percent."

The source for the Quote above is a Newsday article by John Valenti (staffwriter) and can be found at the following address: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-road0407,0,3604577.story?coll=ny-top-headlines I don't know how long they keep this kind of link "hot"...

The whole article gives me pause for all kinds of thoughts. Will make an interesting discussion one of these days. I found it on refdesk under "Current Event Topics". I love that site!
Kate

Good Morning, World
It is another gorgeous day in Paradise. I hope things are well for each of you, too.
We have begun the packing-up process for our return to New Mexico and find that we are using a few muscles that we have not accessed recently...hmmm.
A few thoughts on the move: I'm going to miss a lot of things about Florida: weather, water, beaches, new good friends, Spring-like weather in February, and big skies.
I look forward to my own home, painting my own walls, planting in my own garden, old good friends.
I was born under the sign of Cancer, the homebody, the nestor, the nurturer. Never have I seen that more clearly, than during this time of moving around from one rental to another. Halleluja, I am almost home!
I'll be off the computer for awhile as we move and resettle. Look for me again in a couple-three weeks.
TTFN