Daily happiness 9-1
going back to sleep the sun rising over the Indian Ocean: ‘and the sun comes up like thunder out of China ‘cross the bay!” (Rudyard Kipling) the great love people have for animals
Author: winslow eliot
Daily happiness 8-31
eating dinner on the flat roof at sunset a villa by the Ionian sea a friend telling you they miss you
Six Books for the Journey
Yesterday a friend on Twitter asked this question “If you had to limit yourself to just 6 books, which ones would they be?” Here are some answers: http://ow.ly/lyBW What’s interesting is the number of respondents (myself included) who simply couldn’t resist a challenge like this: thinking about limiting yourself to a small number of ‘must-reads’ Read more about Six Books for the Journey[…]
Daily happiness 8-30
swimming with sea turtles George Gissing’s short story: The House of Cobwebs a comfortable chair
Daily happiness 8-29
a sweet writing desk flexibility the perfect half-moon
Daily happiness 8-28
the low, constant hum of a vast city the Acropolis being in the moment
Daily happinesses 8-27
being generous wild parrots in the bougainvillae dreaming about friends from long ago
WriteSpa #2 – Recalling dreams backwards
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers Hypnompia is the state between sleeping and waking, and it’s the time when we writers do our best work. Remember, the act of writing is not just about putting pen to paper (metaphorically speaking). It’s also about daydreaming, making up stories, reading a lot, thinking about words: their meaning Read more about WriteSpa #2 – Recalling dreams backwards[…]
Tag lines
I’m in Los Angeles for a couple of weeks and something I’m reminded of is the importance of tag lines in the movie promotion biz. On the billboards advertising upcoming movies these little catchy soundbites or slogans seem as important as the movie title itself. They personify the plot and the mood of the film. Read more about Tag lines[…]
Daily happiness 8-26
an antique mirror from another era elephants the cool of evening in the desert
Daily Happiness 8-25
the discovery that we’re not made of atoms but of light Ganesha – the start of a new journey ice cream on a hot summer night
Daily Happiness 8-24
dawn in a city intriguing maps Lakshmi
Reading ‘The Meaning of Love’
The Meaning of Love by Vladimir Solovyov, introduction by Owen Barfield Lindisfarne Books If you want to read one of the most logical, persuasive, and unusual treatises on this eternally fascinating topic, pick up this book! Following a brilliant introduction by Owen Barfield, Solovyov proceeds to dissolve most of our preconceptions about the meaning of Read more about Reading ‘The Meaning of Love’[…]
Daily happiness 8-23
Wild mountain thyme on Scottish moors a sudden thought that helps you understand everything birthday cake
“Tyrants coerce, whereas poets, artists, storytellers sing the daily life, the immediate life, the only life we have, the one we love.”
Whenever I’m on a trip I think about my mother’s book: ‘Around the World by Mistake.’ In 1962-63 my parents took my brother and me on a year-long freighter voyage. They wanted to inspire us to regard the whole world as our home, and people from every country as our friends. ‘Around the World by Read more about “Tyrants coerce, whereas poets, artists, storytellers sing the daily life, the immediate life, the only life we have, the one we love.”[…]
Daily Happiness 8-22
desert rose shelves of children’s books a loving voice whispering in your ear
Daily Happiness 8-21
large, colorful silk and satin cushions the morning star the temple of the dragon’s delight
Favorite Place
Close your eyes and imagine your favorite place in the world. This can be an imaginary place, or a place you know well. Now describe it as precisely as possible. Use all five senses in your detailed description; we tend stick to visuals when we describe things. But how does it smell? What are the Read more about Favorite Place[…]
Daily Happiness 8-20
coconut palm trees the sound of the city Secret Places of the Heart by H.G.Wells
WriteSpa #1 – Stimulating memory
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers Dear Friend, Welcome to my WriteSpa letter. Most of us write either because we’re under deadline or because we’ve been struck by a thunderbolt of inspiration. This pressure creates, at best, a stormy relationship with Writing. But the decision to write is a commitment as important as marriage. Writing Read more about WriteSpa #1 – Stimulating memory[…]
Daily Happiness 8-19
birthday blessings an old friend from high school mountain thunderstorms
The Veils
Lift that veil and you’ll see clear:
the mountains in the distance, your dear face, even the sea,
and the words you speak
to me.
Now lift the next veil
Amazing: more light, more sense, more sparkling gems
Then lift another
and another
All through your life, let your friends
help you, and your work, and your play as well
until the last veil is lifted
and all is revealed:
you have found yourself.