Satchmo’s most famous song „What a Wonderful World” seems to clash with how I feel about the world today. There is an ugly war raging against the Ukrainian people, perpetrated by an ugly Russian aggressor. When the song came out in 1968 the world then too was shrouded by an ugly war in Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination and unbearable racial discrimination. To some Louis Armstrong’s song may seem naive, but it describes the beauty that can be found in the little things, that are taken for granted or remain unnoticed. We live in a wonderful world, I can acknowledge that and be an echo of that wonder. No matter how dark it gets, my earnest “how do you do”, can be a spark of love. It may not stop the heartless from their murderous deeds and it may not protect the innocent from the deadly rain of bombshells, but I don’t want to stop acknowledging my option to see a wonderful world and to measure the present and future against that and not measure it on the basis of the ugly, the negative. Someone may say that that is naive, I for one want to hope against all hopelessness uncovering and creating through my actions a portion of a wonderful world.