What Makes You Happy?

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Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. ~~Benjamin Franklin Where do you feel happy? And if you found such a place, how often would you make every effort to go there? This would be a place where you would feel loved and worthy and safe and …

Where Do You Find Happiness?

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Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. ~Sharon Draper Do you have a place where you feel happy? A place that gives you happy moments? If you knew where such a place is, how often …

Happiness is a Poem and a Flower

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“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” (Hal Borland) “Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.”  (Bill Nye) I’m wishing I could spot some little spring beauty flowers like those above, but not yet this year. Those little blooms are still sleeping under the snow that has stuck …

Joy, Happiness and Just Plain Fun

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Fun with Mystery Photos I hope you’ve been having fun with my mystery photos.Wednesday’s photo stumped most of you. Maybe because it was sort of fuzzy after I snipped out the little bit to try to trick you. Take one last guess and then look down a few paragraphs to see the “rest of the picture.”    A New Photo …

Happy Possibilities

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Where do you feel happy? And if you found such a place, how often would you make every effort to go there? This would be a place where you would feel loved and worthy and safe and engaged in life. No boredom there. No hard testing. Except, of course, some of us are happiest when faced with challenges that we …