It occurs to me that I've never actually explained how Shoemom and I came to live together. The whole 'living with your parents' stigma isn't as much for daughters as it is sons (and I am appropriately grateful that I'll never see myself in a Will Ferrell character). But it it probably does still leave some readers wondering.

The short version is ( Read more... )

OK, so happiness is also about getting the sleep you need when you (desperately) need it, which is where yesterday's entry went. In fact, sometime I may write an entire post on the sweetness of a good sleep, because frankly it makes me very, VERY happy to, say, wake up at 6am and then suddenly realise it's Saturday.

(Parenthetically - anybody else ( Read more... )

The fragrant velvet of a rose
curled lightly into my hand
This is my offering;
A solemn devotion, dumb-show of ecstacy
Thine is this twilight hour, thine is the Kingdom

In the pageantry of Eternity I am strange and lost
But I can feel the cool relief of a summer rain
And afterwards the earth smells strong with growing things
the roses will come soon

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Happiness week @ Shoe Central continues with a theme of universal love, hope and brotherhood...

...well, OK, not exactly. We haven't reached the 'bang the tambourine at airports' stage of happiness yet, and frankly, we hope we never will. We have fond memories of encountering George Carlin in a book of advice to young people: "Question everything. ( Read more... )

...the sudden realisation that I don't, in fact, have to wait for the Happiness Meme to come back around before posting a week's worth of things that make me happy.

This is good. Because I really, really need some cheering up. I have hit a patch where even attendance at a three-day spiritual feast seems to be more about pointing out what I'm not ( Read more... )