Some more quotes to help you have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane
So tonight a little tour around the web for some other sites to help you have a happier day my friend ~ Rev Kane
Sure it’s just a marketing gimmick for a major corporation, but Coca-Cola’s happiness site is pretty interesting
Action for Happiness is a site that focuses on happiness as social change, interesting site.
The United Nation’s Day of Happiness, it was March 20th, can’t believe I missed it but here’s a site to check it out.
One of my all-time favorite sites Zen Habits.
A relatively new resource, Live Happy Magazine.
Tonight a lot of visual little signs to help pick up your mood and help you have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane
Beautiful Van Gosh quote
Tonight friends, images from my favorite painter, Vincent Van Gogh. The reason I love his work is the combination of color and intensity. You can almost feel madness in the lines and brush strokes in his paintings. I’ve only ever been fortunate enough to see prints and images, but on my life list is a desire to visit the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, that will be a very happy day friends. So here are some images of my favorite works, have a look and have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane
Starry Night
Wheat fields
Vincent Van Gogh, self-portrait
If you like Van Gogh, here are some other Art and Happiness Posts!Happiness is Art: Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Chihuly
Some funny baby images to give you a chuckle as you head into the weekend, enjoy and have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane
Originally published September 21, 2020
It’s been a little over six months since we started our first lockdown related to COVID. Over that time all of us have bounced through a range of changes, a range of emotions on our way to building to a place that we can loosely refer to as a new normal. Over this time we’ve all searched for various coping mechanisms and for ways to get what we need. For instance, with gyms closed, I’ve had to find new ways to workout. It’s meant buying some equipment for home and doing something that I never thought I would be, I’ve been running. I would love to be back in the gym, I’d prefer to be walking up fake hills on the treadmill than to running any day.
However, I also have noticed some not great things about my new normal. Initially I was working a huge number of hours, so at the end of the day I had no energy left. This led to me falling into a really bad pattern. Wrap up work each night about nine then fall into a chair and watch two hours of TV before I crashed. I admit it’s nice at the end of the day to just be mindlessly entertained for a bit before sleeping. However it has also meant that I have not been very productive with any of my personal projects and goals. That has to change.
So I took a vacation day today to catch up on some personal projects that have been lagging. And to get a list together of the projects I need to get back on top of again. It’s time to come out of this malaise that COVID has led me into and get moving, get started again on my projects including my next book.
So today, I built a list of the projects I want to get going again. I even put a little calendar together for myself so that I can keep my goals on pace. Tomorrow we get rolling again. I hope if you’ve been in a similar place you can start moving forward as well. The things we’re dealing with in the world are with us for awhile, we can’t just hide in a shell, it’s time to embrace life again, albeit with some modifications.
Wear a mask, be careful, wash your hands, social distance and have a happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward ~ Steve Maraboli
Originally posted June 2018
One of my favorite films of all time is Fight Club, there are a lot of reasons I love this film and one of the sentiments that the narrator expresses is how Tyler Durden has, “the ability to let what truly doesn’t matter slide.” Now my friends this is a level we all should aspire to in our lives. We spend far too much time focusing on things that truly don’t matter. How many times in our day do we get angry at someone in traffic or at the grocery store, how much time to we spend mulling over this or that off-hand remark made by someone, we truly don’t care about.
We do this all of the time, let situations that don’t truly matter bring us down, let those we don’t carry about impact our mood. We’ve been programmed since childhood that appearances matter, we watched our parents worry about others opinions. We need to learn how to break this cycle, to worry less about what other people think. In the end, we live alone, we die alone, along the path of our life the only person who we have to lay down with every night is ourself, we have to be ok with ourself and we need to learn to approach the philosophy of Tyler Durden, and let what truly doesn’t matter slide.
Give yourself a hug tonight and have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane
Originally posted May, 2012
There is an artist/writer/dreamer by the name of Brian Andreas, his work was introduced to me by a dear friend and I’ve come to love what he does, the link below is to his site, they sell a lot of his stuff there and they make wonderful presents, but mostly I’m posting just for you to enjoy the images and the words, have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane
http://www.storypeople.com/storypeople/Home.do
Happiness is Art: Story Telling
Some of my favorite Art Projects
I’m already to learn although I don’t always like being taught ~ Winston Churchill
Originally posted November, 2018
Everything around us has an opportunity to teach us, sometimes by example of how to live our lives, unfortunately many times by examples of how not to live our lives. The important to thing is to watch, observe and take the appropriate lessons from what we see. One of the people in my life who continually teaches me is my friend Kim. She’s a person I greatly admire for her intelligence. Now admiring someone for their intelligence is not all that surprising except for the fact that I’m quite egotistical about my intelligence. As arrogant as it may be I rarely meet people I would consider to be smarter than myself. My friend Kim though fits this bill by truly illustrating the idea of multiple intelligences. Kim comes at the world from a completely different angle than I do. I’m very much someone who comes at the things from a hard science, hard logic perspective and for that reason people can at times truly perplex me. It is often at these times, or when I ask her to review something I’ve written, that Kim will knock me flat with her perspective. Her social science, humanistic and human centered approach often seems nearly alien to me in everything but its correctness and illumination.
Watching and learning from this example makes me a better and a happier person, I’m always happiest when I’m improving. A great example of Kim’s genius is a graduation speech she delivered, enjoy it. So look around friends, observe, learn and have a happier day ~ Rev Kane
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific purposes. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. ~ Sir Edmund Hillary
Chorten at Namche Bazaar
Originally posted November, 2013
Tonight friends, photographs from a Mt. Everest Base Camp Trek I did several years ago with Kamzang Trekking, it was a wonderful trip I recommend going with them if you plan a similar trip, and the mountains are as you can see, quite beautiful. Enjoy the pictures and have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane
Second Gokyo Lake
Stupa at sunset
The Na Valley
Ama Dablam
Gokyo lake
Gokyo Town
Tibetan Trader
Yak on a leash
Rev Kane and a hiking friend
The Ministry of Happiness 