On the Bright Side

So life's been kind of up and down recently (admittedly more down than up for the last week or so), but it's important to keep looking around for the good in life. To this end, I have noted a couple of breakthroughs in the last few days that are worthy of mention. First, Wake Forest won a basketball game. Against an ACC school. That beat us in football. Happy. Second, somehow delegates managed to get North Korea to agree to disarm its nuclear weapons program. To be sure, this does not mean that the story is over; it is unlikely any change will come any time soon and there is almost certainly going to be many roadblocks along the way. But at least there was a handshake. Same goes for a global summit on global warming, which apparantly has also reached a deal. Who knows if anything positive will actually come from any of this, but when life's tough, it's good to at least see some positive signs and these are issues that have been charactized by gridlock for years. I for one am encouraged.