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Happy in Child-Rearing
Most likely you have heard, “there’s no book on how to raise a child”, perhaps because “it takes a village” – you may have heard that one too.Raising a child is not easy by any stretch but abiding by good treatment and tenets of child-focus can yield a happier trail of nurturing. How many of …
Happy Homer Headline
Going along life, we come in contact with much good and much that is not good. With mankind existing and with differing dispositions in hearts there has bound be unhappiness mixed in with good life. It is revolting to know that history is filled with bizarre sadness yet sprinkles of happiness can and do result, …
HAPPY Side of the Counter
“It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood” – starting his program with that phrase Mister Rogers (half-hour educational children's television) must have operated on the auspice that ‘this is the day the Lord has made let us Rejoice and be glad in it’. Of course, easier said than done.At birth, no one came to our …
GET HAPPY, UN-HATE
What do you hate, who do you hate, what team do you hate, what religion do you hate, what culture do you hate? Yes, there is a lot of hate to go around and people are “drinking the cool-aid”, so harsh an emotion! The real deal is that we actually dislike things and people, but …
HAPPY IN DEATH
Days go by, beautiful ones… all days are really. A day is what you make it and in it there are myriads of things going on, which reaches us pleasantly and not so pleasantly. How we deal with it fashions how good or how bad our day metes out. One of those myriads is death …
HAPPY WITH ‘THE BREW’, AND WITHOUT
It was tropical, the beautiful country in the Caribbean, a place you would reverie for a Covid lockdown – it was Barbados! The time of year was right, like all the other times of year really, mangos sit ripe on the tree in the front yard. We arrived in warm inviting weather at a sizable …
Happy in Traffic
Happiness has a health connection! I am slothfully waiting the day when all that’s being researched gets to the lack of happiness as a diagnosis for failing health. We are so surrounded by unhappy situations, that mushrooms out like peacock feathers to reach us. We should not let unhappy situations unhappy us! Be mindful by twisting your focus on the things …
POOP INTO HAPPY
Not a typo! When your bowels are ‘moving’ the way nature intends, you are healthy, you are happy. How’s your ‘movement’? ‘Movement’ is a normal part of the digestive process, however depending on health and nutrition it can be different in texture and shape. The health of your body dictates ‘movement’ type. Soft to firm in …
Lift Yourself Up, Happy
A bright day indeed but a dark time, with the Covid-19 virus looming over all populations. Nevertheless, a couple found a niche in a safe and well-contained restaurant, with distant outdoor seating and individually enclosed separation of tables. They reminisced about a concert, with friends the year prior. They were in awe that they were …