Appreciation

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The paper focuses on how by appreciating the small and beautiful things, even in the face of the large and terrible, one could make at least a small corner of the world more pleasant. The metaphysicians state that this will lead to the world being full of more small beautiful events than large frightful ones. If the doomsayers are right, the appreciation of small, beautiful things will expand to fill the available time.

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"All the time these 'big things' were going on, however, there were small things, humanizing, spirit-lifting little events that kept us from disintegrating as totally as the World Trade Centers did. There were little things that kept us from agonizing over the betrayal of trust seemingly so prevalent in the world's oldest Christian denomination. There were little things keeping us from despairing that world-class criminals could so easily murder a man who had done nothing but his job, reporting on the big events in the world. Last weekend, we needed little events to keep us from wondering if, like the Genesis planet in the Star Trek series, our Earth was about to shake apart, blow apart and send us all to perdition in a frightful, smoke-and-noise-filled cataclysm."

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