What a wonderful reflection on your year! Thank you for sharing those memories ... it made me want to encapsulate my best days of the year, too. Because, like you, 2022 was an amazing year for me -- my world is so different now than it was in January. I believe this kind of life-ease comes from following your passion and letting the flow of your life's purpose lead you from one joy to another.
My favorite line in this 12/23 post of yours is: "... unhappiness has driven some of my best writing but it’s never made me a better writer."
This speaks to my soul's mission: Helping people see that happiness is a by-product of the choices we make. Right? I mean, try being happy when you know you're making a bad choice. It can't be done. But when we choose the things that truly make our spirits sing, happiness happens naturally. In all things, perpetually.
Sure, crappy days come along, but they don't have to threaten our happiness in the ways they used to. And I'm finding that many of those crappy days are by-products of programmed emotions, once meant to protect me, have become no longer useful ... so I let them go. Then, rather quickly, happiness--in some form or another--sneaks in to inspire me.
You've been part of that happiness for me this year, Hattie. Thank you for what you're doing here on Substack. I absolutely adore your Monday poetry posts; they've opened up a whole new realm of the poetic world I never knew existed and inspired me to get back to writing more poesies. And thank you for contributing your poetry to my ezine. I'm so anxious to move it over to this platform in January!
Happy Holidays Hattie -
What a wonderful reflection on your year! Thank you for sharing those memories ... it made me want to encapsulate my best days of the year, too. Because, like you, 2022 was an amazing year for me -- my world is so different now than it was in January. I believe this kind of life-ease comes from following your passion and letting the flow of your life's purpose lead you from one joy to another.
My favorite line in this 12/23 post of yours is: "... unhappiness has driven some of my best writing but it’s never made me a better writer."
This speaks to my soul's mission: Helping people see that happiness is a by-product of the choices we make. Right? I mean, try being happy when you know you're making a bad choice. It can't be done. But when we choose the things that truly make our spirits sing, happiness happens naturally. In all things, perpetually.
Sure, crappy days come along, but they don't have to threaten our happiness in the ways they used to. And I'm finding that many of those crappy days are by-products of programmed emotions, once meant to protect me, have become no longer useful ... so I let them go. Then, rather quickly, happiness--in some form or another--sneaks in to inspire me.
You've been part of that happiness for me this year, Hattie. Thank you for what you're doing here on Substack. I absolutely adore your Monday poetry posts; they've opened up a whole new realm of the poetic world I never knew existed and inspired me to get back to writing more poesies. And thank you for contributing your poetry to my ezine. I'm so anxious to move it over to this platform in January!
Best of luck to you in 2023!