To be a member of a vulnerable community is to get no mental vacation from injustice, have no physical shield from the tumult, find no easy emotional escapism from the terrors of the day—and to intentionally avoid their non-optional nightmares is an abdication of our responsibility as people living in larger community with them –Continue reading “Week Thirty-Five: Stop Reading the News for a Week”
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Week Thirty-Four: Sign Up for a Fitness Class
You’re only one workout away from a good mood. – Unknown Do an internet search for the words “how to be happy” and I guarantee that one of the top suggestions, without fail, will be something to do with exercise. This is now Week Thirty-Four of this adventure and so far, four of those weeksContinue reading “Week Thirty-Four: Sign Up for a Fitness Class”
Week Thirty-Three: Join a Book Club
Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other’s first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we’d never truly tasted it before. – Pamela Paul, in My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Books of Books, Plot Ensues For my entire adult life I haveContinue reading “Week Thirty-Three: Join a Book Club”
Week Thirty-Two: Take an Afternoon to Do Something “Unimportant”
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. – Mahatma Gandhi When I sat down to write this story I immediately drew a blank. This, the first full week of my vacation, was the time I had set for myself to “spend an afternoon doing something unimportant”. InsteadContinue reading “Week Thirty-Two: Take an Afternoon to Do Something “Unimportant””
How to Be Happy 