This widely circulated video really puts things in perspective. We have much to be thankful for.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Amber.

I love the music, too.

The statistics on how many people live on less than $2 / day are deceptive, of course.

When I was in rural Tibet we trekked through a village waving US and Chinese money. But there was no store. Nothing to buy. No one wanted to rent us pack animals. Subsistence villagers had no use for “paper”.

Those Tibetans lived on ZERO dollars a day. And lived that way quite happily for the past hundreds of years.

By any numeric measure of “poverty” in Canada, I am below the “line” myself. The number of dollars you have in your pocket is relative.