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#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Mar 14, 2009 [SPOILER]

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THANKS for your entry! (Jota-judge)
Who created a world without this? (Jota-individual)

so cute. :)

I like this wish!!!

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As a kid, this was what I wanted for Christmas. I doubt I would have used it the same way I would today.

I think I found my next candidate for the U.S. Presidency...
:)

Teresa, I really, really, really hope you get your wish!

I love the imagination in this one and the good feelings and wishes it represents.

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Wouldn't it be nice if all those things were possible? I believe it is impossible for all those things to become true, afterall we ARE human, full of errors, jealousy, etc. But a great wish anyway plus a wonderful puzzle!

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Impossible? Hmmmm. It all begins with the belief that it can happen. We may be human, but humans evolve, in our critical thinking and problem solving. Today, more people than ever are working toward making these dreams come true.

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve

"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing." - Mother Teresa

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

Have I insprired anyone yet? :-)

"We do the impossible every day. Miracles take a little longer." - Chinese thinker

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Sometimes things are impossible because of the disagreement of the alternatives. For instance is not possible to solve the problem of children of underdeveloped countries,who are starving for food, health and education.

It only takes longer, Jota. It WILL be possible in the future, some day.
That's how I need to see it, anyway.

There are already small communities in the U.S. that are helping impoverished communities in other parts of the world. Our community here in Arizona is helping a small town in South Africa. We paid to have a well put in so they now have fresh water. We built a school and pay for teachers' salaries. We recently built a clinic. A team of doctors and nurses from our community just got back from a month long volunteer trip where they administered that community's first formal medical care. The community is beginning to thrive, and they have begun a program to become self-sufficient through an agriculture project they initiated with no outside assistance. I personally prefer to help those in my own community, but I have learned I can do both. :-)

The company I work for, or rather the employes, do the same thing. We get to know exactly what we're buying - the last thing I bought was a pregnant goat!

Yeah, Petra! Just one person taking action can make a big difference for many.

Many organizations have been helping for a long time, for instance SAVE THE CHILDREN have been doing it for 75 years. The result is that the situation is still the SAME simply because in those areas of poverty children should not be being born. Unless we can educate and provide food, health an EDUCATION to the parents first so they can take responsibility for bringing a child into the world.

I impressed that you found a way to draw a picture of your wish. It's not the easiest thing to draw.

Honestly, I don't get the part about it being impossible. Maybe it's impossible to get 100% of it, but it's easy to get more of it, and if I look at the progress that has been made just during my lifetime, it makes me want to pat the human race on the head and say "good doggy!"

When I was a kid, threats to world peace used to come from the major nations of the world. The US and the USSR seemed ready, willing and able to reduce the surface of the planet to a glowing cinder. But somehow, those two government, whom nobody at the time would have suspected of wisdom, refrained from using those weapons, and actually put them down. Now the major threats from world peace comes mostly from lunatic fringe groups, not major governments.

Even Mr Bush's stupid Iraq war, which was the low point of recent American history, features the US Army behaving more strangely than any army in the history of mankind. When the generals talk about their new military strategy, they talk not about ways to shoot lots of people, but about ways to engage the more moderate elements of the opposition into negotiations and seduce them into cooperation instead of conflict. We've got the most powerful military in the history of humanity, and the friendliest. Soldiers go out on patrol hoping to win the hearts of people.

When I was a kid, there were race riots in America's major cities. Black leaders declared that the only way racial justice could ever be achieved was by a complete overthrow of the establishment, that is the government and business power structure, which they believed could not change in the required way by any other means. But it changed anyway, gradually, but bloodlessly.

Everywhere I look I see this stuff, things that would have seemed crazily impossible when I was a kid. The human race is getting smarter and saner at a stunningly fast rate. Sure, there are lots and lots of problems left, and it's hard to see how we will solve them all, but it's easy to see how we can make some progress in the right direction, and that progress is happening.

Well said, Jan - BRAVO!

I loved this puzzle!! One of my favorites so far!

And Jan, I am 100% with you!!

I hope Teresa's wishes come true!!

Thanks, Liz!

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I had to google that Byrdie and of course the result made me laugh.

I forget that Carl's Jr isn't as ubiquitous as McDonalds. Here in MN I've seen one but there's a chain called Hardees (which is fast disappearing) that uses the same star logo and has a similar menu. I've never checked but I think they are the same company.

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wonderful puzzle and very fun solve :-)

Fun solve; just doing it today, in January 2018.
Looking over the earlier comments, and wondering what the H happened. Anyhooo [dot dot dot]

I did the edge logic first, then a bit in ca. rows 10-15, and I saw a figure beginning to form. The two bits up from the bottom were its feet. The huge black circular bit in the upper 2/3s was a huge Afro, with the upper frame of a pair of cool sunglasses.

Then I worked the upper triangle, and it quickly changed. But I still like it ;-) Thank you!

You are welcome, CB Paul.

Re-reading the comments makes me wonder where 9 years went. I think of all that has happened. Wow.

I encourage each person reading this to continue to make his or her own little world a little bit better, that that can contribute to making the big world a better place. Yes?

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