Thank you Ophelia! Yes! I remember my mother telling us when we were growing up that although we weren't rich, we were rich because we have each other!

I work with a community in Micronesia who by all accounts have nothing, no vast resources except the ocean and coral reefs that sustain them, no wealth in the western sense. Yet they are so rich! They celebrate everything! They have such a profound sense of community. No one goes hungry, no one is homeless, no one is unemployed. It's easy to envy this kind of connection, but I don't think that is quite the same as romanticizing their tenuous survival!