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Category Archives: Happiness
Notes from Inside a Black Hole
Serious illness, like a black hole, draws everything into itself. Energy, creativity, enthusiasm, all the factors essential to blogging, are subsumed and nothing is left outside. Which explains where I’ve been for so long. Not my illness, but the Hub’s. Now … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Flowers, Happiness, Health, Life and Death, Quotes, Wisdom
Tagged Black Holes, Courage, Health, Wisdom
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JOY!
“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.” Oliver Wendell Holmes At the close of 2014, a year of … Continue reading
TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY!
Not only because I think he resembles an impudent rascally adorable little boy — but because that’s actually his name! I can hear you thinking, What is she talking about? That’s a pansy! Well, yes and no. Johnny Jump-ups are … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Happiness, Personal Essay, Pioneer Valley
Tagged Folk Medicine, Johnny Jump-ups, Language of Flowers, Pansies, Portraits, Shakespeare, Wildflowers, Word Origins
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“To Touch the Heart” —
(Note: It’s probably best to look at this post AFTER you’ve eaten a meal!!!!) It’s been said for ages that the way to a man’s heart— or a woman’s, for that matter — is through the stomach. In that spirit, … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Happiness, Photography
Tagged China, Chinese cuisine, Cooking, Dim Sum, Dumplings, Food, Friendship
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It’s All Connected, Even the Dragons —
I woke up this morning and found I was thinking about dragons. A little strange, when I think how the sun was shining on hot pink rhododendron blossoms and the sky was blue and brilliant. Nothing fierce or dragon-y in sight … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Loneliness, Memory, Music, Personal Essay, Quotes, Wisdom
Tagged Connections, Death, Dragons, Ezekiel, France, Joy, Resurrection, Rilke, Troyes
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“She Cleans Up Nicely”
Hop aboard today’s train of thought! It began when I was looking in the mirror, blow-drying my hair with my usual let’s-get-this-over-with attitude because I was in a hurry. We were leaving for the supermarket, and I was rushing because … Continue reading
Posted in Enlightenment, Etcetera, Happiness, Mindfulness, Personal Essay, Wisdom
Tagged Friendship, Latin, Picasso, Style, Transformation
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Guess Where I Went Today?
Clue #1: Somewhere that, when I was a little kid, was considered something like a Little Shop of Horrors. These days — well, things have changed. Here’s the sign that greeted me: Clue #2: When I was leaving, this is … Continue reading
Posted in Etcetera, Happiness, Health, Medicine
Tagged Dentistry, Humor, Modern Medicine, Teeth
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Happy Christmas to All!
It seems paradoxical that the quintessential Christmas plant comes to North America from the tropics. Yes, the poinsettia’s heat and vivid color originate in Mexico. The cheerful flowers so delighted Joel Roberts Poinsett, first United States Minister to Mexico, that he … Continue reading
Boundless Joy!
Will you hop aboard my train of thought with me? It’s heading toward a place of harmony and — you guessed it — joy! The starting point was a dull morning with not much needing to be done. So I … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, Art, Etcetera, Happiness, Music
Tagged Beethoven, Friendship, Genius, Germany, Joy, Music, Spain, Stream of Consciousness
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My Vegetable Love —
Summertime —slow, lazy, sultry — has laid its spell on me. No posting, no reading blogs, not doing much of anything except lolling about, reading, and day dreaming. And eating corn on the cob. In Andrew Marvell’s poem To His … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Etcetera, Food, Happiness, Personal Essay
Tagged Corn, Love, Seasons, Summer, Vegetables
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