My dear friend Laura has reinstated the happy list...a list of things to be happy about, and it is a very good thing. Sort of like my highlight of the day journal that I have sorely neglected. But the happy list is a collaborative effort, which makes it even more fun. Like Oh yeah...that makes me really happy too!
Lately, I've been learning about being happy, and it's harder than it seems. Or at least I make it hard. For years now my family and I have been in survival-crisis mode, so my problem is that I don't trust happy. I like it. I love it. I adore it...but when it comes in big chunks and abundant blessings all at once it sort of freaks me out. For the last decade it hasn't been that way. I keep expecting the happy rug to be snatched from under me. I'm afraid to trust happy. But I'm learning that happy is okay. I'm learning not to be so afraid. And I'm learning to live happy. I have a great guy (official shout out to Clay), a great family, and a promising new career opportunity. Life is good, and I'm going to soak it in while I can.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
January: thoughts
New Year
New Possibilites...lots! I'm excited about what it will bring. So far a lot of hard things have happened. Nationally, we're still reeling from the shooting in Arizona. Personal friends have experienced loss and illness and known much sadness...but then there is art, and coffee, and friends, and weddings that are soon, and babies have been born. And so, I am optimistic. I am happy.
I have a brand new cousin - Rosabella Anne. I just met Jamie's baby, Caraline. And recently saw Laura's baby boy, Carson. You just cannot be sad around babies.
I'm listening to President Obama's speech right now. Quite cynically, especially as he talks about education... It is the same cynicism that accompanies talk of education by any politician...but our country is important. Democracy is about the right to your own opinion, and so I'm creating a great many right now. I am touched by the tribute to U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. That's something that everyone got right! Maybe the good that will come out of this situation is putting aside pettiness, and just caring about each other and our country.
New Possibilites...lots! I'm excited about what it will bring. So far a lot of hard things have happened. Nationally, we're still reeling from the shooting in Arizona. Personal friends have experienced loss and illness and known much sadness...but then there is art, and coffee, and friends, and weddings that are soon, and babies have been born. And so, I am optimistic. I am happy.
I have a brand new cousin - Rosabella Anne. I just met Jamie's baby, Caraline. And recently saw Laura's baby boy, Carson. You just cannot be sad around babies.
I'm listening to President Obama's speech right now. Quite cynically, especially as he talks about education... It is the same cynicism that accompanies talk of education by any politician...but our country is important. Democracy is about the right to your own opinion, and so I'm creating a great many right now. I am touched by the tribute to U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. That's something that everyone got right! Maybe the good that will come out of this situation is putting aside pettiness, and just caring about each other and our country.
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