I was playing with a journal suggestion from (the awesome) April Bowles Olin of Blacksburg Belle when I ended up with this in my sketchbook. Her journaling prompt that I started with was:
“What is happiness to you?”
Of course, I started with the specifics, and since I LOVE making lists I came up with a whole lot of very specific answers very quickly. (These are the just the last 3!) And then a little light came on in my head and the purple marker came out. Happiness is: a million happy moments and the one state of mind you can bring to every moment. *insert Tibetan gong sound here*
Back here on Earth, I’m getting an idea:
I’m thinking this could be a fun idea for a handmade book or something. It’d be soulful to try and capture hundreds of these little vignettes of happiness in one spot, maybe with the “Happiness Is” revelation at the beginning of the book as an introduction… Something people could read through when they wanted a little extra happy. Any suggestions on ways to present this? All my own happy moments? A collection of lots of people’s happy moments? In a little handmade book? Fill up a little journal? Make an ebook? Scraps of handwritten paper in a shoebox?? Hundreds of people commenting after this post with their own happy moments?
What about you?
Share some of your happy moments with us down in the comments, let’s keep the wheel of the happiness dharma rolling!
Phyllis Hoople says
Moving chairs out into the yard at 2:00 in the morning to watch a meteor shower with all the kids – wrapped up warmly in quilts.
Picnics down by the creek when we had a small farmstead. Everyone came…parents, kids, dogs, cats, goats, and the occasional chicken. Good times, good times.
Later – retired and living on a lake – evenings out in the front yard with family and friends. Neighbors out in their yards, too. Fireflies and moonlight.
jennyhoo says
I loved those picnics too!!! Sitting on the sand, looking for rocks 😀