Sad story to report….Some of you will think me silly, but I truly love animals and nature and I hate to see any animal die for unnecessary reasons. This incident is especially sad, for what I explain at the end. Late Monday afternoon I stopped work to water my backyard plants using water from […]
Patience, Grasshopper:
In early August, late one Sunday evening–August 7 to be precise– I was gathering habanero peppers. It was hot and I was tired. The pepper plants were short and so, to avoid bending over, I’d plopped myself down and was sitting in the grass, picking peppers off one plant at a time. I would gather […]
All-Encompassing Love
In yesterday’s post I was trying to describe the multitude of contexts where we use the single English word: Love. My goal in that post and this one is to establish the foundation for a happy life: It starts with Love. This is the love that feeds the hungry, cares for the sick, forsakes selfish […]
The Happy Life Journey: The Revelation
A few days shy of exactly 3 years ago, I woke early, made coffee, opened a text app on my computer and started to write. It was as if the message had come to me in my sleep. I started typing. “It starts with love.” I envisioned 95 theses: The Happy Life Manifesto. If Martin Luther […]