Category: happiness
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Fresh air and sunshine
I went to the Dallas Arboretum yesterday on a sunny day and saw many of the 500,00 spring blossoms on display. “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat,” Laura Ingalis Wilder once said. I like fresh air and sunshine and agree that they’re hard to beat—but, for sure, colorful tulips…
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Miracles
“There are only two ways to live your life,” Albert Einstein once said. “One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle.”
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Autumn bliss
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree,” Emily Bronte once said.
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Simple pleasures
Fall leaves, cooler weather and a cup of tea. Simple pleasures. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.” I hope you enjoy some simple pleasures today. –Joy
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Owls play
Owls are playful, says ornithologist Rob Bierregaard. ”We have videos of owls in the nest pouncing on feathers and jumping in the nest. No apparent purpose to this. Just playfulness.” Scientists suspect that play depends on cognition, and species with bigger brains play more, says Jennifer Ackerman, author of What an Owl Know—The New Science…
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Good-bye summer
It’s almost autumn. I hope you have had a summer like the one Ray Bradbury describes in his book Dandelion Wine. A summer “where flowers were suns and fiery spots of sky strewn through the woodland. Birds flickered like skipping stones across the vast inverted pond of heaven.” I hope you’ve had a summer with…
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To be loved
I just returned from attending my nephew Will’s engagement party in New Mexico. Attending the party reminded me of a quote from George Sand: “There is only one happiness in this life—to love and be loved.” –Joy