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How many times do we look around, but fail to really see? How often do we fail to give thanks for the blessings that bombard us every day, and instead focus on life’s small irritants? A recent movie title “Eyes wide shut” describes the way in which many of us waddle through life. 

Norman Vincent Peale explained that he saw more smiling faces in the rice paddies of China than on Park Avenue. Whenever I want to make the point about abundance and excess within this country, I show my students comparisons of how they stack up against other people and the income disparity across countries. I think the abundance which many experience jades us to how truly wealthy we are.  Turn the page…