Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~ Hosea Ballou

Three Questions, December 17, 2024

You can find the background to The Three Questions in my recent post about it. I’ll be answering the questions each day for the next year and putting this experience into a book. Here we go!

What was the most beautiful thing I encountered today?

The most beautiful thing I saw today was the view from the top of our campus looking out over the Pacific Ocean. It’s absolutely one of the best things about my job that I have that view a hundred yards from my office.

What did I learn today?

I had to dig for this one, realized I really hadn’t learned anything in the course of the day. So one of the good things about this three question exercise is that it forces you to look for beauty and happiness and even to learn something if you didn’t. So I Googled some science facts and found a really amazing one. I would have bet you dollars to donuts that identical twins have identical fingerprints, they do not. Turns out that growth differences in the womb actually have an impact on how the whorls of your fingerprints develop. Absolutely blew me away.

What made me happy today?

This one was easy today, the kids from our child development center brought me a Christmas card with all of their smiling faces on the card, those kids are my absolute joy in my job.