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Happiness is Poetry: More Langston Hughes

Happiness is Poetry: More Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ~ Langston Hughes Democracy Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I … Continue reading

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Happiness is Poetry: Robert Frost

Happiness is Poetry: Robert Frost Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.    ~ Khalil Gibran Tonight another look at a wonderful poet, one I must admit I’ve not made my self … Continue reading

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Happiness in Three Weeks

Happiness in Three Weeks If you do not change direction, you may end up where  you are heading. ~ Lao Tzu So it’s the third week of January and for most of us our New Year Resolutions have already failed.  … Continue reading

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Happiness is Poetry: Outlaw Poets

Happiness is Poetry: Outlaw Poets My absolute favorite poetry collection is entitled The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and you can read it free on the link, today several selections from that collection, wonderful reading for a happy day my … Continue reading

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Happiness and Special Places

Happiness and Special Places I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often … Continue reading

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Happiness is Staying Positive

Happiness is Staying Positive         Find a place inside where there is joy, joy will burn out the pain ~ Joseph Campbell It sounds so simple doesn’t it, just stay positive.  How many times in your life, … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday to My Mother

Happy Birthday to My Mother This post is a couple of days late, but I’m ok with that since last week I actually flew to NY, hopped a train and had dinner for my mother for her birthday.  My mother, … Continue reading

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Happiness is Concern for Others

Happiness is Concern for Others   Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today ~ Amy Leigh Mercree   Today was one of … Continue reading

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Timeless Thoughts on Inner Peace

Timeless Thoughts on Inner Peace Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. ~ Gerald Jampolsky One of my favorite sites is … Continue reading

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Happiness, simplicity and letting go!

Happiness, simplicity and letting go! The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak ~ Hans Hofmann First tonight a little note about the image above, this was one of the many things written … Continue reading

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