Category Archives: Philosophy

Surviving Happiness

“Things are working out well… …As tough as this was, it’s been a wonderful thing. I think even for the country to watch and for the world to watch.” (Speaking from Houston, after Hurricane Harvey.) “Have a good time, everybody!” … Continue reading

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A Cessation of Happiness

I have heard, (it seems) all of my life, to prepare for the worst and to hope for the best; I will add “actively” before hope. There are currently many fronts on which I can apply this maxim. Typically I … Continue reading

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Improving Happiness

Subservient: serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; servile; excessively submissive; obsequious. Obsequious: compliant or deferential; obedient; dutiful; fawning. A desire to control is a natural, human urge. But to work at exercising control over any realm beyond the boundaries … Continue reading

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Fantasystastic Happiness

Today I was walking south on 9th Street and, just before entering one of my lunch launch hunt haunts, I passed what felt like a Mother and her college Daughter. I took note of the daughter, and nodded to Mom … Continue reading

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Happiness, “on many sides”

For several months now, like a pinball in the hands of a dark wizard, I have caromed from feeling angry to incredulous to mystified to amused; from bumper to bumper to bumper in a constant, random, chaotic concatenation of disappointment. … Continue reading

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