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Dan Haseltine
Celebrating 1,000 When One Matters
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
If I asked you to think about 384 million people, would you be able to find an image in your minds eye? If I tried to get you to visualize 147 million orphan children, would you be able to conjure up such a picture? In the swirl and confusion of conversations about the US economy and budget cuts, as we use the disembodied language of millions and billions of dollars, do you have a picture in your mind of a giant pile of bills and coins? Most of us will never see a trail of that many zeroes in our own bank accounts.
We do like big numbers. I have not heard anyone describe the trek to the summit of Kilimanjaro as a 3.8-mile climb. Climbers like to say that they traveled 19,340 ft.
