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“I’m in the mood to be happy….and you can be happy, too….”
“We can be happy, too”
A chair that represents …. “happy”
…a sense of contentment…
…a sense of well-being…
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Nurturing a sense of happiness, contentment and well being
in myself and in others around me…
nurturing love and compassion..
Offering myself and others…
attention, appreciation, affection, acceptance, allowing…
Nurturing…being happy…
nurturing, finding and making positive choices that support all of these qualities
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…….living life and making choices in a positive way……..
immersed in the midst of,
surrounded by,
nurtured within,
sustained by,
compassion and love
…..supporting my own sense of happiness and the happiness of those around me…..
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Love…the wish for all beings, oneself included, to be happy…
What a lovely thought!
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…thinking…pondering…reflecting…
How can I find and make more positive choices that support being happy???
The happier I am…the happier others around me will be…
happiness is contagious!
it’s good for me…it’s good for you…it’s good for all of us
supporting happiness….a healthy positive choice!
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Love…the wish for all beings, oneself included, to be happy
What a lovely thought!
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“I’m in the mood to be happy….”
Exploring…happiness…
hmmmm…..?????
“I wonder WHEN I might be feeling “happy” and contented…???”
I wonder WHERE that might happen more easily???
I wonder if I can get some clues…
look for a little bit of “evidence” about WHEN and WHERE I’ve seemed to be happy….
Ah ha!!!….
look at this!
here’s one place…
in the New Hampshire woods….where I grew up!
…walking…sitting…wandering…exploring…
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The beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire….
the amazing Pemi Wilderness….
Lincoln, NH
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hmmmm….happy???
more clues….
Summer 2015… a wonderful 5 weeks on the Pemi River….
Riverfront C -208
exploring, wandering, enjoying and sitting
truly… a peaceful, happy, easy time
a deep sense of contentment and well being
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…happy…
…throughout so many vacations during the past 27 years…
…on the Pemigewasset River…
…. Riverfront C 201 ….
….so many happy summer vacations spent in that condo… C 201
…just look at those clues!!!…
places I’ve felt a special kind of deep and easy happiness
and now….
amazingly enough….happily enough….
wow!….we just bought that condominium!!!
We bought…..C 201 !
We weren’t looking…it just appeared…wow!!!!
ahhhh….nurturing a sense of happpiness
amazing….serendipity……synchronicities…surprising blessings
….a choice of the heart….
…..a choice from the heart…..
…..a choice by the heart…..
……a choice for the heart….
choosing…to explore and expand on a sense of…. happy…
more possibilities….varying possibilities…unexpected possibilities
….supporting being happy….
…nurturing a sense of contentment and well being…
C 201
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…happy…
hiking in those woods…along those trails…exploring…wandering…enjoying….
….happy…
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…peace…like a river…
……….joy…….like a fountain……..
………happy……….
Peter and me…happy, playful, joyful and silly…
on Cannon Mountain, Franconia Notch, NH
(taken in 2012…by Julie)
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….happy….
a sense of contentment and well being
“…a peaceful, easy feeling…”
“…I’m already standing on the ground…”
steady, humble, loving, kind
curious, wondering, exploring
“Looking at life from both sides now…” …many sides now…
Seeing so many varied options and perspectives…
Willing to choose among many options and perspectives…
…from the heart…
…with the heart…
…for the heart…
Being unexpectedly offered…
positive options, positive choices…
supporting exploring and expanding a sense of….happiness
Flexibly choosing…
a choice of the heart…
a choice for supporting and exploring happiness
supporting a sense of….happiness…contentment…well being
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…playful…happy….light-hearted…full-hearted….curious….wondering…
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More clues…..
I’m sooooo happy when I’m…
“watching the river run….”
…on…and…on…and…on…
“and it goes on and on,
watching the river run,
listening and learning and yearning…
……….run river run……”
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Another wonderful river…the Tuolomne River…
happily….. “listening and learning and yearning…”
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What a quick choice of the heart!
a surprising choice of the heart….by the heart…
to take this chance on exploring and expanding happiness
“listening and learning and yearning”
…. my heart…the river…life….
…all going on and on and on….
run…river…run
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Happy choices being made by
a life long river rock walker…
…a river rock hopper….a river rock dancer…
…a river rock watcher…
….a river rock girl….
……. “me” ……
…. “Kathy” ….
journeying along….through life
(wow!…clues….I see that I created this video in 2007!)
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river…….please….please…please…take me happily along….
continuing in the flow….along this journey…that is my life…
“River Take Me Along”
by Bill Staines
“River, take me along in your sunshine, sing me a song
Ever moving and winding and free
You rolling old river, you changing old river
Let’s you and me, river, run down to the sea”
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the happiness of being near rivers
the love of rivers
learning from rivers
flowing like rivers
another beautiful river…a happy song…a beautiful, moving song
a song of love and wisdom
(video by Julie)
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The full lyrics of that beautiful song “River, take me along”
written by Bill Staines
“I was born in the path of the winter wind
I was raised where the mountains are old
Their springtime waters came dancing down
And I remember the tales they told
The whistling ways of my younger days
Too quickly have faded on by
But all of their memories linger on
Like the light in a fading sky
River, take me along in your sunshine, sing me a song
Ever moving and winding and free
You rolling old river, you changing old river
Let’s you and me, river, run down to the sea
I’ve been to the city and back again
I’ve been moved by some things that I’ve learned
Met a lot of good people and I’ve called them friends
Felt the change when the seasons turned
I’ve heard all the songs that the children sing
And listened to love’s melodies
I’ve felt my own music within me rise
Like the wind in the autumn trees
River, take me along in your sunshine, sing me a song
Ever moving and winding and free
You rolling old river, you changing old river
Let’s you and me, river, run down to the sea
Someday when the flowers are blooming still
Someday when the grass is still green
My rolling waters will round the bend
And flow into the open sea
So, here’s to the rainbow that’s followed me here
And here’s to the friends that I know
And here’s to the song that’s within me now
I will sing it wherever I go
River, take me along in your sunshine, sing me a song
Ever moving and winding and free
You rolling old river, you changing old river
Let’s you and me, river, run down to the sea”
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ahhhhhhhh….happy….
River….please take me happily along…
In your sunshine…please sing me your song…
You rolling old river…you changing old river…
Let’s you and me river, run down to the sea…”
oh please river…please, take me happily along…
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