-
Recent Posts
Top Posts & Pages
Blog Stats
- 27,387 hits
Meta
Categories
- Abundance
- Acceptance
- Action
- Adventure
- Adversity
- Aging
- Anger
- Animals
- Attittude
- Authentic Living
- Awards: Sharing The Love
- Awareness
- Beauty
- Believe
- Breakthroughs
- Bullying
- Challenges
- Cheerfulness
- Children
- Choices
- Commitment
- Communicating
- Compassion
- Connection/Connecting
- Contentment
- Contests
- Courage
- Creativity
- Dealing with Pain & Grief
- Discipline & Consequences
- Dogs & Other Wonderful Creatures
- Dreams
- Duty
- Education
- Envy
- Failure
- Fairness
- Family "Fun"
- Fear
- Feelings/Emotions
- Focus
- Following Your Passion
- Forgiveness
- Freedom
- Friendship
- Fun
- Fun Vids
- Generosity
- Gifts
- Goodness
- Gossipping
- Grace
- Grandparenting & Grandkids
- Gratitude
- Growth/Learning
- Healing
- Health
- Heroes
- Honor
- Hope
- Humility
- Humor
- Illness
- Imagination
- Ingenuity
- Inspiring
- Introspection
- Investing
- Joy & Happiness
- Kindness
- Life
- LIfe Lessons
- Loneliness
- Loss
- Love
- Making Memories
- Making the World a Better Place
- Marriage
- Meditation
- Miracles
- Mistakes
- Music
- My Beliefs
- My Written Works Misc.
- Nature
- Non-Fiction Writing I've Done
- Observations
- Optimism
- Pain & Grief
- Parenting
- Passion
- Patience & Persistence
- Peace
- Photos I Took
- Photos That Touched Me
- Poems By Others
- Poetry I Wrote
- Potential
- Praise
- Quotes I Love
- Quotes I Wrote
- Random Thoughts
- Regret
- Relationship Lessons Learned
- Song Lyrics I've Written or Co-Written
- Song Updates
- Songs For Sale That I Wrote or Co-Wrote
- Songs I've Written or Co-Written
- Songwriting Adventure
- Songwriting Conferences & Trip Updates
- Spirit
- Stories That Touched Me
- Story Writing Adventures
- Strength
- Success
- Suffering
- Talent
- Teamwork
- Time
- Traditions & Rituals
- True Stories I've Written
- Truth
- Uncategorized
- Unexpected Pleasures
- Vids & Stories That Touched Me
- Wisdom
- Words or Quotes I Believe I Coined but please let me know if you heard them earlier elsewhere
- Writing
- Youth
Archives
Poets Corner
Tag Archives: happy
Bob Dylan’s Definition of Success
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan (Source: Robin Ruddy) I believe that is true for … Continue reading
Posted in Following Your Passion, Joy & Happiness, LIfe Lessons, Observations, Quotes I Love
Tagged Bob Dylan, dancing, doing, doing what you love, drummer, following your passion, happy, Love, Robin Ruddy, Success, successful, tune, women
9 Comments
Naturally
All those who love nature Probably also love their lives For nature is full of life And happy lives are full of love. –Russ Towne
No Need For a Key
I just saw a saying at Ute’s delightful blog at http://utesmile.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-2353 that I really love: “There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.” Thank you for sharing this great quote, Ute. So much truth and wisdom in … Continue reading
Posted in Choices, Joy & Happiness, Poetry I Wrote, Quotes I Love
Tagged closed, door, Happiness, happy, joy, key, open, smile, Ute, Ute's Happy World, Ute's Smile, world
10 Comments
Funk Relievers
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” –Emory Austin (Source: Online Wellness Network) This sounds like good advice to me (as long as they are happy, uplifting songs). I also find that smiling, looking up, … Continue reading
Posted in Attittude, Feelings/Emotions, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Joy & Happiness, Quotes I Love
Tagged Anger, anger-inducing, debilitating, disempowering, dismiss, driven, ego, Emory Austin, funk, happy, hugging, kindness, loved, negative, network, Online Wellness Network, sing, sings, smile, smiling, song, songs, source, uplifting, wellness
6 Comments
A Bright and Happy Place
Let your intentions be good – embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds – and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve. – Grenville Kleiser Source: … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Attittude, Choices, Goodness, Quotes I Love
Tagged be good, bright, cheerful words, embodied, good thoughts, Grenville Kleiser, happy, intentions, istopforsuffering, place, play, serve, unselfish deeds, Work, world
6 Comments
The Flow
I had a dark and haunting dream last night and awoke with a sad and jarring phrase running through my head over and over again. While these are certainly not the kinds of things I normally associate with Thanksgiving, I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Gifts, Gratitude
Tagged dreams, flow, friends, Friendship, gifts, Happiness, happy, haunting, Love, Thanksgiving
8 Comments
Grandkids Say The Darnedest Things
A friend shared these with me and I thought you might enjoy them too: 1. She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she’d done many times before. After she … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Children, Family "Fun", Grandparenting & Grandkids, Humor
Tagged aging, birthday, Friend, grandchild, granddaughter, Grandkids, Grandma, Grandpa, Grandson, happy, Happy birthday, old
11 Comments
Keys to Our Marital Happiness
A friend commented something to the effect that it sounds like communication is a key part of what makes our marriage successful. I thought I’d share my response with all of you and augment it in this post: Yes, communication … Continue reading
Posted in Family "Fun", Gratitude, Growth/Learning, LIfe Lessons, Relationship Lessons Learned
Tagged beloved, bliss, blog, budget, communication, finances, focus, gender, genre, Happiness, happy, imperfections, investing, Love, lyricist, marriage, Money, music, read, respect, Special Ed, time, wedding, wedding rings, wife, writing
12 Comments
Some Gifts I’d Love to Return
My last post where I said tough times are “lesson-rich” may have come across as glib. It wasn’t meant to be. While I believe challenging times are indeed lesson-rich and hold gifts for us, there are quite frankly some gifts … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Dealing with Pain & Grief, LIfe Lessons, Observations, Pain & Grief
Tagged beloved, blood, blood transfusions, cancer, challenging times, daughter, despair, diagnosed, difficulty, gifts, Grief, happy, hospital, incurable illness, intensive care, lesson-rich, Life, pain, scare, survived, thyroid
9 Comments
