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A Market for Happiness

This week I had occasion to write and send the following email: It could be convincingly argued that in the context of “ALL” past, present, and future, there is only inconsequentiality. Yet within this realm of ALL, there is the … Continue reading

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Happiness, indeed

I am appreciative of our President; and if his unwavering insistence on blow-drying each and every Presidential utterance is more than simple tumescent inexperience, I may even be proud of him. Knowingly or not, he has brought into the light … Continue reading

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Proportional Happiness

Below is an entire bookstore as sectioned by the retail gods of proportional profits. Below this list are some personal observations. 1 Antiques & Collectibles 3 Art 5 Crafts & Hobbies 2 Wedding/Etiquette 1 Beauty & Fashion 1 Exercise & … Continue reading

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A Plea for Happiness

I suppose I should be grateful to be interrupted, ignored, ordered about, or, (in one recent incident), picked up and bodily moved to a more convenient spot in order to appease another’s sense of propriety. I should be grateful because … Continue reading

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Impossibly Real Happiness

It may have been the blink-of-an-eye. It may have been infinity, unraveled; amplified. To extract reality from uncertainty, is to choose every word—every descriptor—with the utmost care. Like each single-latticed scale within the delicate, ethereal, translucent wing of a butterfly, … Continue reading

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