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Debating Happiness

I don’t suppose we have lost it, because we know it is there. It is more that we have chosen to separate it; to put it in its own little box apart from us. We on occasion pull it closer … Continue reading

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Blue Blooded Happiness

In the last 40 years 40 percent of the NCAA men’s basketball national championships have been won by the four teams meeting in this year’s Final Four; and interestingly this year’s championship game is being played on 4/4/22. Furthermore, of … Continue reading

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Happiness; neither here nor there

I am neither here nor there; yet I am. And many (most? all?) who are here, are not. And many (most? all?) who are there, are not. I can no longer unsee or unhear stilted inanity. This leaves me in … Continue reading

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Happiness at 2.53%

Equity is balanced justice according to circumstance. Consideration of circumstance must include social, economic, demographic and geographic factors as well as individual health and well-being. Justice is affinitive active truth and reason applied with compassion and empathy, and absent any … Continue reading

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Where there is happiness…

I ask for discussion; you quote from the rulebook. I ask for acknowledgement; you perform a song and dance. I ask for consideration; you file a report. I ask for justice; you make excuses. I ask for compassion; you condescend. … Continue reading

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