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HAPPINESS from WITHIN
Let Curiosity Transform Boredom
Into Peace and Lifelong Learning
Innocence Jump-Starts Life
Running through the lush, fulgent, finery of a forest of firs. Recall the aromas. Wafting Douglas Firs, scent of Redwoods, the fallen Maple leaves in autumn, protection from the cold in a copse of Cedars’ scents in winter’s winds.
Why? To find out. To find out what’s there. To feel immersed by the beauty, embraced by the forest, cradled in the stream, and birthed under the waterfall.
Even now, after seventy-plus years on the planet, I continue to feel.
I flow with feeling delighted, relieved, amazed, and awe-struck by the breathing forest. Dappled sunshine overhead within reach of my soul.
When was the last time you walked near the trees, the standing ones, and allowed their peace to seep into your soul?
What? What pulls me along to explore? Yes, it is the hunger to know through experience.
How?
How does it feel? The double meaning in feeling. To feel love, joy, happiness, overflowing from the light within. To feel as in “sense” and fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants in hands-on learning. Oh, the excitement of it. Wildness overtakes me…