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Rethinking Happiness

ONE VIEW OF THE WORLD. Inequality (opens the door to) Potential for Violence (which requires) Threat of Force (in order to enforce) Rules and Regulations (created to perpetuate) Threat of Force (in order to enforce) Rules and Regulations (created to … Continue reading

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Wading toward Happiness

You ask me to perform a creative task that will help you. Before I am able—before you allow me to begin work—you do what you had asked me to do, and you acknowledge that your results are likely different than … Continue reading

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Threads of Happiness

1. I am not misunderstood. I am simply not understood. I feel bereft of my humanity under the questioning gaze of those I love; and of those I barely know. To stand exposed yet impenetrable, expressively transparent yet reflectively inexpressible, … Continue reading

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Happiness all too brief

The two lines immediately below, (and repeated or paraphrased throughout), are from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot. These two lines have inspired all that flows and scuttles within. “I should have been a pair … Continue reading

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Arrogant Happiness

This week’s headline: PASSION TRUMPS ARROGANCE. And I believe that in my lifetime, it will do so considerably more often than not. Arrogance is interpreted. Passion is felt. Those most arrogant are most oblivious. Those most passionate are most in … Continue reading

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