I hope this little email will uplift and encourage you to see the good things all around you. In this email:
Thought for the day: To look at the world like a child again
Picture of the day: Whale fountain
Daily Funny: Goblin!
Daily Happiness: Queen Bumble Bee
Daily Quote by Colette
I hope this little email will uplift and encourage you to see the good things all around you.
Thought for the day
To look at the world like a child again
I often look at children, and how excited they are of little things. A bug is a wonder, a puddle is a source of joy (because of course you have to jump in it), a dog is the best thing in the world. Playing takes the child into another imaginary world without limitations. And every day is an adventure. A child's heart is full of unconditional feelings.
To see the world though a child's eyes again! To be able to stop completely into a moment, to see its possibilities, its beauty, its excitement! Now there's a goal worth pursuing.
Picture of the day
Happiness Journal of a Whale Fountain
This is a photograph of a fountain in the shape of a whale tail. I love the element of water, and whales and dolphins and all marine life. I have spent my whole life by the sea and love its energies - calm or stormy. When we travel, I want to go and see aquariums (but I do not like dolphins or whales being imprisoned for amusement).
This is one of my favourite fountains ever.
Water somehow calms my mind and boosts my creativity. That's why I think it is a good theme for a Happiness Journal cover.
Happiness Journal / Whale fountain products
Daily Funny
Goblin!
I don't recall anymore where I heard this story, but it still makes me laugh.
A little child was traveling on a bus with her mother, when a young man stepped into the bus. He was a punk-rocker - his hair was sticking out in spikes into every direction, he had made up his eyes with black kohl and mascara, he had a safety pin through his cheek, a long black coat with chains hanging, and heavy boots.
The little girl looked at him in awe and then whispered to her mother in a loud voice everyone could hear:
"Look Mummy! A goblin!"
Everyone started laughing. Not exactly the effect the young man was looking for... :D
Do you have a funny story you would like to see published in this letter? An event, what someone said? If so, tell it in the comments below.
Today's Happiness
Queen Bumble Bee
I love bees. Always have. I've been rescuing them from water, given them sugar water when they are exhausted, helped them get outside from a house. And bumblebees especially are adorable.
Here is a picture of the first bumblebee of the year - these ladies appear in our balcony every spring. I don't know where they come from, but I do know these very first ones are queens that go on building their colony. She made me smile despite the misery of the corona epidemic at the moment. She was a sign that summer is coming, which sure is another thing that makes me happy up here in the north.
So if you see a bumblebee early in the spring, do not kill it. (Or any other time either!) If you do, you are killing a whole colony.
Daily Quote
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” - Colette