The Resolute Woman

Category: happiness

  • Two birthdays every year?

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    Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her birthday in April on the anniversary of the day she was born, but she’s celebrating again in June with an “official” birthday. The tradition of two birthdays started in 1748 with George II, who was born in November. He decided that November was too cold for his annual birthday parade.…

  • Life is startling

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    I love quotes, and I especially love finding a quote—a bit of wisdom—that seems written just for me. Here’s one I found recently while browsing at Barnes & Nobles. “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else,” Emily Dickinson once said. –Joy

  • Happiness is not for another hour

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    I love quotes, and I especially love finding a quote—a bit of wisdom—that seems written just for me. Here’s one I found recently while browsing at Barnes & Nobles. “Happiness is not in another place, but in this place. It’s not in another hour, but in this hour,” Walt Whitman once said. I’ll share more…

  • Remember the promise

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    Michael Ryan writes a reminder of the promise of spring in his poem “Spring(Again)”. The birds were louder this morning, Raucous, oblivious, tweeting their teensy bird-brains out. It scared me, until I remembered it’s spring. How do they know it? A stupid question. Thank you, birdies. I had forgotten how promise feels. Ryan’s poem was…

  • Some exciting news

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    Lily’s eyes were bright when she announced that she had some exciting news. With a round, angelic face and two pony tails on the top of her head, Lily is one of the children in the four-year-old Sunday School class I teach. “What is your exciting news?” I asked. “I went to the opera with…

  • How do you spell “love”?

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    Piglet asked: “How do you spell ‘love’?” “You don’t spell it,” said Pooh. “You feel it.” I found that quote on a Happy Wedding card from Hallmark Disney Winnie the Pooh, and I bought it and sent it to a lovely young couple. I didn’t go to their wedding, but, when I saw their photo…

  • The land of delight

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    When she was a girl, she lived in a world of books and imagination, Gloria Steinem explained to Maria Shriver in an Interview Magazine article, which I found online. Where does she live now? “I live in the land of delight—of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining,” Steinem said. –Joy

  • Keep sparkling

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    “Don’t let anyone dull your sparkle.” I found that advice in a classroom at the elementary school where I volunteer as a mentor. –Joy

  • “I would never again”

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    “It was May, then, June, and I remember how I would stand and look out the window at the sidewalk below and watch the young women—my age—in their spring clothes, out on their lunch breaks; I could see their heads moving in conversation, their blouses rippling in the breeze,” says Lucy Barton in Elizabeth Strout’s…

  • Would winning the lottery make you happy?

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    I never imagined that I would be passing along advice from Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks. But I’m going to. I liked two of the tips that Cuban gave for the winner of the Powerball lottery jackpot in an article in the January 12, 2016, issue of The Dallas Morning News.…