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Full Corn Moon<\/p>\n
“Men who seek happiness are like drunkards who can never find their house but are sure that they have one.” – Voltaire<\/p>\n
In Los Angeles Story, Steve Martin has one of the great opening moments in cinema.\u00a0 He drives into a planned community, tie undone and looking exhausted after a long work day.\u00a0 In his hand the garage remote points at house after house, all the same, on and on and on, all gray, all with the same front porch, the same roofline, the same front yard and driveway.<\/p>\n
Contrary to the positive psychology movement I agree with Voltaire that happiness, if it comes, arrives in moments and as the adjunct of other activity, never as a realized objective.\u00a0 Happiness as a pursuit has a futile, desparate air, intimating that life without it has less, is less.\u00a0 I don’t believe that.\u00a0 Think of Viktor Frankl, creater of logotherapy, who maintained a sense of purpose while in the concentration camps.\u00a0 Or, Anne Frank, hidden, yet living.\u00a0 Imagine those times in your life when happiness has eluded you, were those times less worthwhile than those when happiness came easily?<\/p>\n
To seek happiness demeans the reality and integrity of the total human experience.\u00a0 If it comes, let it come.\u00a0 If it does not, we live on anyway.<\/p>\n
Outside work today so I need to get going.\u00a0 See you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a074\u00a0 bar steady 29.94 ompn SE dew-point 62\u00a0 sunrise 6:17\u00a0 sunset\u00a0 8:16\u00a0 Lughnasa Full Corn Moon “Men who seek happiness are like drunkards who can never find their house but are sure that they have one.” – Voltaire In Los Angeles Story, Steve Martin has one of the great opening moments in cinema.\u00a0 He drives … Continue reading On Seeking Happiness<\/span>