Happiness is :

1.  Waking up without a headache.
2.  Looking out of the window and seeing the blue sea halfway up the golden 
     sand.  Calm as a millpond.
3.   Not caring that the weather looks dull and no sunshine at all as forecast.
4.   Looking forward to a whole week of fun and games with lots of children at
      half-term.
5.   Seeing on the news that there seems to be a bit of a breakthrough re.
      Madeleine McCann - well a possible description of the abductor anyway.
6.   Getting room ready for small child coming for sleepover today.
7.   Taking dog for walk.
8.    Making breakfast for my family.

Am I boring you? 

I'll get me sou'wester.

Ah well you see.  The fact is, everything is an illusion and we're all just figments of each others' imaginations.  We create our own reality apparently, therefore we all live in a hell of our own making.  Or not of course, depending on what we've created.

Hey ho.

Yes, It is something like that.
There is another quote: When all of the remedies and all of the rhetorical armor have been dropped, the absence of love in our lives is what makes them seem raw and unfinished: Ingrid Bengis.

Love soothes, encourages, inspires. Without the expression of love we are severed from our family and friends. It's the bond that strenghthens each of us, giving us the courage to tackle what's lying ahead.
Loving must be unconditional. And when it is , it will be returned tenfold. Loving attracts itself, and it will heal us, soften the hard edges of our lives, and open us up to receive the blessings that others' gratuitude will foster.  Unconditional love of our sisters, our lovers, our children breaks down the barriers to our achievements and theirs.

You know t-p life is too short to read such things and worry about them.

Get on with life I say.

A

Yes thank you I did! Fabuleux Millie this afternoon.  I intend to have a little flutter and it really doesn't matter if she doesn't win, it's just a bit of fun.  Must find out the odds...

I don't really know Richard.
Here is anothe one:
A,
I am not impresssed with this book too. They are Daily Meditations for Women.
today is May 27th. There is this quote: As the wheel of the decades turns, so do a person's needs, desires, and tasks. Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of "deals" or compormises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations. - Maggie Scarf.
Under it it says: What life has measured out may not be what we had dreamed of. Life's lessons may not be those we'd have chsen to learn. Wisdom dictates that the joy of life is proportional to the ease with which we accept those possibilities for growth that have grown out of our inner desires.
We may not have tried to "realize" many of our desires in the past. But the time has come. We need to attend to the inner desires that beckon to us. They are calling us to move forward.

All these books have their limitations. This book was given to me by a friend here. She is from Canada (Hamilton) and she is a little lonely here too.