Overheard while out for a walk:

"I know life is hard. But - we're still here, aren't we? And so many aren't."

Not wrong! It is indeed SO many - between 93 billion and 140 billion since humans began, according to an article in Spektrum der Wissenschaft (the German Scientific American) last year.

More than 90% of all people in world history are no more. But here we are, in this moment, you & I & all the rest. We're still here.

Hello there, fellow Now-person.