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About Michael Kane

Michael Kane is a writer, photographer, educator, speaker, adventurer and a general sampler of life. His books on hiking and poetry are available in soft cover and Kindle on Amazon.

Happiness is Laughter: Lazy People

Happiness is Laughter: Lazy People Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something ~ Robert A Heinlein Check These Out… Happiness is Laughter: Pranks Happiness is Laughter: George Carlin … Continue reading

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Random Happiness: Unique and Bizarre Vacations

Random Happiness: Unique and Bizarre Vacations Tonight a way to feel happy by breaking out and going out on a really wild vacation and hopefully you’ll have a happy day ~ Rev Kane   Feel like a giant Disney World, … Continue reading

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Happiness is Poetry: Leonard Cohen

Happiness is Poetry: Leonard Cohen To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older. ~ Leonard Cohen If you know Leonard Cohen, you likely know him from his music and personally I … Continue reading

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Happiness, Returning & Emotion

Happiness, Returning & Emotion Happiness is having a large, close-knit family, in another city.                              ~ George Burns So it’s going to be an interesting and stressful week, you see I’m heading back to the place I grew up for … Continue reading

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Happiness is Poetry: Rev Kane

Happiness is Poetry: Rev Kane Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. ~ E. L. Doctorow Tonight for our weekly poetry post … Continue reading

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Happiness Resources: How to be Happy

Happiness Resources: How to be Happy   Tonight our weekly tour around the web to provide you with some resources to help with your personal journey to happiness, have a read and a happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane … Continue reading

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What is your most persistent delusion?

What is your most persistent delusion? For me, it is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, no matter how satisfying or reassuring. ~ Carl Sagan Ahh, this is one of those really … Continue reading

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Walking San Francisco: Coit, North Beach, the Embarcadero

Walking San Francisco: Coit, North Beach, the Embarcadero San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every house a poem, every dweller within immortal. This is the whole truth. … Continue reading

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Things aren’t always what they seem

Things aren’t always what they seem But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell. ~ Neal Shusterman So, the image above may not strike you as something you’d see on a happiness blog, … Continue reading

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Happiness and Changing Perceptions

Happiness and Changing Perceptions Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. ~ Edward de … Continue reading

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