Eight is more than enough

I'm moved and excited to read about the octuplets who were born in California on Monday. As of the latest report, all of them were breathing on their own. News sources are saying that only one other occurrence is documented of octuplets all surviving their birth; of those siblings, one infant survived for only a few days, and the other seven grew and thrived to celebrate their tenth birthday in 2008.

Amid all the angst and uncertainty around the economy and questions of whether we'll survive this or that challenge, guess what? Meanwhile we've lived another day. Those eight little folks in California are a testimony to the life force that is in all of us.