Happiness?  It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness.  Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

                                                        -Margaret Storm Jameson

Moving towards American Thanksgiving...

What makes you happy?

       What do you give thanks for?

I'm happy when words come together harmoniously on a page, inviting new or better ways of perceiving and relating to the world...

    I'm happy when someone smiles with me...

I'm happy when I come back from a distant yet near meditation place and realize I've been able to be truly quiet for a while... to let go of my unending mental chatter and cogitations...

    I'm happy when sleep comes quickly and dreams stir new awarenesses...

I'm happy when I move smoothly (physically) through my activities... enjoying muscles and sinews and bones and nerves and blood vessels all working together, without even thinking about them...

 I'm happy it doesn't take much to make me happy!

Blessings

Dan