Hi, dear friends! And you, enemies, be blessed too! You know, many years ago I was presented with a nice book ’14,000 things to be happy about. The Happy Book by Barbara Ann Kipfer’. It was published in 1990 by Workman Publishing New York. “This book represents 20 years of recording all the little things that make me happy. … I flip through this collection to cheer myself up; often use it to get ideas about what to cook for dinner or something fun to do with my son on the weekend”, says the author in the preface to the book. It is not a usual book. There are no sentences in it: just a 612-page-long list of things such as ‘pajamas at breakfast, a lake catching the last flecks of sunlight, the position of your head as you bite into a taco, giving yourself a mind message, leaves twinkling in the sunlight, spangling in the moonlight, dancing to the special music of raindrops on their thickness’ and so on.
Have you smiled at least once while reading? I hope you have. So, I suggest doing something like keeping a similar book but the author will be collective: we will share our bright happy moments and they could be good ideas for the others.
What’s made me happy today? Listening to an old (2008) concert of my favourite group Okean Elzy on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eB6FxOHJMo); buying a new pen which looks like an old-fashioned ink pen of 1970s; a nice box of chocolates from a student of mine for yesterday’s Women’s Day, talking with my daughter.
And what about you? Could you recollect your pleasant moments of the day?
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Hi, Valentina! What a adorable blog you did! As Oscar Wilde said: “I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex” and, linking things, one of my pleasants today was to read "The Picture Of Dorian Gray", in the comfort of my bedroom with a good cup of coffe. It is the first time I am reading it and I am liking! And, still about books, very interesting this you talked.
Today was warm here, I made a walk in the beach and sitted close from the river in the end, stayed there for almost two hours, just looking the river. Putting all the heavy things inside outside and fulling myself with nature around; staying present in a zen way. I could stay there forever, listening the birds, feeling the wind and looking the river taking its course to the sea.
My sister visited me today and we talked about life for a long time, with the company of a good coffee.
I think that is in the simple pleasures that lives the most vivid things! Thanks for share yours, valentina! I'm very interested in this concert you shared.
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