The Resolute Woman

Category: happiness

  • Everything you need to know about love

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    I found the book called Everything I Need to Know about Love I Learned from a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow on a table with other books for Valentine’s gifts at Barnes & Nobles. One page featured an illustration of Little Red Riding Hood. “Of course, there are a lot of wolves out there,”…

  • His sweet, sunny, loving nature

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    I just read a book about James Garfield, who spent his childhood in poverty on an Ohio farm and then eventually was elected president of the United States. He served for 200 days in 1881 before he died from infection after he was shot by an assassin. I never would have read the book—Destiny of…

  • A lesson relearned—keep laughing

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    When I am too busy and the traffic is annoying and I’m running late, I’ve found the best remedy always is laughter. I try to remember the reason for the holidays. This is not a season to be endured, but a season to be enjoyed. Sometimes, though, I have to remind myself to keep smiling.…

  • A day at James and Jeany’s farm

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    My brother James just broke a chicken’s neck. He killed it, and now he’s plucking its feathers. My sister-in-law Jeany is working at the Los Lunas community garden. Yesterday I helped Jeany and her friend Suzanne make salsa using tomatoes, onions and green peppers from Jeany’s garden and garlic from the community garden. We canned…

  • Competitive canoeing

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    When I canoed seven miles on the Saco River during my vacation in Maine, I ended up with a red, raw spot where I rubbed the skin off the upper part of my thumb. It’s a trophy I proudly display to prove that I did my share of the paddling. I almost didn’t go canoeing.…

  • Be kind. Have fun.

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    We exited Interstate 20 and drove to Tyler, Texas, with a specific destination in mind—Stanley’s Famous Pit Bar-B-Q. However, we weren’t the only ones who had read about “the holy smoke pantheon of Texas barbecue joints” in the August 2014 issue of Texas Highways magazine. We had to wait in line to order our barbecue…

  • Just for fun

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    I had a splendid evening watching the Junior Players, a group of talented high school students who work all summer to perfect their lines, perform “The Comedy of Errors” at Shakespeare Dallas. This play, you may remember, is “a farce-comedy at times bordering on slapstick…. “Shakespeare had no subtle moral, no lyrical expression of love,…

  • Live delightfully

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    My friend Susan usually arrives in a perky hat. Often with a joke to share. Always with a big smile. Because Susan is a splendid reminder that it’s good to smile and count my blessings, I buy her a Sunrise birthday card that lists some of the rules for “living delightfully.” * Greet each day…

  • Are you happy?

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    In her book Following the Path: The Search for a Life of Passion, Purpose and Joy, Joan Chittister talks about how happiness comes from purpose, not things. Chittister quotes Helen Keller, who said: “Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a…

  • I will be happy

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    I smiled when I found this quote on the D Moms Daily Blog. “Today I will be happier than a bird with a French Fry.” –Joy