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Happy Birthday

April 3rd, 2010 Posted in Celebrating Others

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Living Happiness, the day that suddenly I would start sharing my thoughts and my life with the world (with complete strangers!) and hope they would want to stop by, chat, rest a spell, and share with me their own experiences, too. I was nervous, I was excited, I was hopeful, and slowly but surely all of these things came to be. One visitor led to another, and before long I was meeting beautiful people from all over the world … and reading their wonderful stories! What a gift! What a joy!

On this birthday, then, of Living Happiness (which began it’s life as “My Pursuit of Happiness”) I want to do three things.

First, I want to thank you my readers for your faithfulness and for the joy you’ve brought into my life. I write for myself but I also write for you.

Second, I want to thank the following friends in the blogging community that opened its arms to me. These people have been supporters of Living Happiness from the very beginning and are still here even after my five-month hiatus, and I cannot thank them enough:

If you do not already know these bloggers, please stop by their page and read the kinds of things they are writing. They are all amazing individuals, each doing their own part to share joy and happiness with the world … and help you do so, too.

Third, I want to leave you today with a read through memory lane. Below are a sprinkling of a few of Living Happiness’s earlier posts, as well as some of my handpicked personal favorites. Please feel free to read and comment on them. And by all means, enjoy!

To those of you celebrating Easter: Happy Easter!
And to all of you lovely readers who are not, have a beautiful weekend!

Photo credit: flickr photo by wishymom

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The Poem That is You

March 30th, 2010 Posted in Celebrating Others, Contemplations, Everyday Life, Inner Wisdom

This is what you shall do:
love the Earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches,
give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labour to others,
hate tyrants,
argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence towards the people,
…………………………………………
re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul;
and your very flesh shall be a great poem
and have the richest fluency not only in its words
but in the silent lines of its lips and face
and between the lashes of your eyes
and in every motion and joint of your body. …

~Walt Whitman
from Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)

In the middle of this very special week for so many of you, I wanted to share with you this reflection.

How do you feel when you read this poem?

What words especially touched you today?

Can you see your life, your body, as a poem?

Would love to hear from you today,

Photo Credit: flickr photo by yokviv