I just learned that today is International Day of Happiness,
and with all that is going on in the world, we certainly need it!
So let's make this a "happy" day. I seem to complain
so much on this journal that today should be a day to think about the happy
things in my life
I
was sitting with the wife of another critic at the opening night reception
for a play we attended last night. She turned to me and said "I think
we both have sweet husbands." I agreed with her. We both tend to
be rather intense "characters" and our husbands seem to put up with us and
love us in spite of it. I put Walt through a lot and he still lives
with me, smiling and telling me he loves me. I am a lucky woman.
That makes me happy.
Jeri
left yesterday and spent last night in Oakland, making music with Ned,
Marta, and their friends. She flies out back to Boston today, and
weather willing, will be home tonight. She spent part of 3 days while
she was here visiting with her grandma. What a special relationship
they have and how it makes me smile to see her militant positive attitude.
You can't be around Jeri and not be happy.
We
had such fun at Todo un Poco the other night. Seeing Marie and her
success, watching how competently she runs her restaurant, reading the
publicity on the walls and knowing what a positive force she has been in her
community makes me happy, not only for her, but remembering all the
good times we had with all those foreign students for all those years.
It was a golden time around here--not always wonderful, but always memorable
and how happy I am that we had that experience.
Ned
made the dinner at Todo un Poco such fun. Ned can be such a joy to be
around, both watching his relationship with Marta and then seeing how he
goes out of his way to help someone (like finding ways to help Marie
publicize her restaurant on the radio station for which he works).
He's an amazing person and I'm so glad that we are not only mother and son,
but friends as well.
There
are so many other things that make me happy. Tom and his family make
me happy all the time, watching the girls grow, watching what wonderful
parents Tom and Laurel are (how did Tom learn to be such a great parent?).
I love my relationship with Bri and Lacie, now that I'm making an effort to
write to them on a weekly basis. And sometimes they write back.
I hope that if I keep this up, we will have the perfect way to keep a
long-distance relationship active between visits.
The
dogs are a constant source of happiness, watching them play together, having
a routine that we have settled into each day. I love how they run in
from the living room to greet me in the morning when they hear that I am
awake.
Our extended international family, both with the foreign
visitors we hosted and now with the Compassion kids that we sponsor. I
have been receiving many letters lately and those I have been sponsoring the
longest are now writing "real" letters, rather than essentially "I am fine,
how are you, please pray for me" letters. It is fun to watch our
long-distance relationship grow.
And
who could not be happy in this part of California today? We have had
lots of rain, the reservoirs, lakes and rivers are fillng up, the hills are
a deep, deep emerald green and around town gardens are springing forth with
a kaleidoscope of spring flowers in bright colors, especially the beautiful
daffodils that are suddenly everywhere.
And finally, definitely not "least" in the happiness list, today is my
Jounalversary. I started writing Funny the World 16 years ago
today and with this entry am starting my seventeenth year of daily
entries. All of the people who have read this journal for so many
years make me very, very happy!
I wish everyone a very happy International Happiness Day.
What is making YOU happy today?
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