I think happiness is what happens when we love the present. However, the conditions of the present are always changing, which makes that a bit difficult.
What you're describing is a way of rediscovering love for the present again and again in new moments and places by relocating familiar things you love. I think this must he a fairly sustainable strategy for being happy.
Beautiful post! And chimes nicely with how I've been thinking in recent days...I'm in the southern hemisphere, where we have winters which are mild compared to yours, but seem cold to us, and just about now we are getting intimations that spring is not far away. Those dear cycles which underpin everything, are shifting gear, as the buds and the birdsong attest - and before too long it will be time again for peaches and nectarines and cream!
I think happiness is what happens when we love the present. However, the conditions of the present are always changing, which makes that a bit difficult.
What you're describing is a way of rediscovering love for the present again and again in new moments and places by relocating familiar things you love. I think this must he a fairly sustainable strategy for being happy.
beautiful essay 💜
Beautiful post! And chimes nicely with how I've been thinking in recent days...I'm in the southern hemisphere, where we have winters which are mild compared to yours, but seem cold to us, and just about now we are getting intimations that spring is not far away. Those dear cycles which underpin everything, are shifting gear, as the buds and the birdsong attest - and before too long it will be time again for peaches and nectarines and cream!
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