Happiness is a butterfly....

which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, 

but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.  

            ~Nathaniel Hawthorne  

This beautiful yellow swallowtail was flitting around my garden this morning.  

What a lovely surprise.  

Enjoy your day, everyone!  

Discovery journal

...or should I call it a visionary journal.  I started a journal of pictures and illustrations several years ago after reading the book Simple Abundance by Susan Ban Breathnach.  The same type of journal was also mentioned in the book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.  It is a journal filled with anything and everything you love, things that make you feel good, speak to you, stir your imagination, even color.  You simply go through old magazines, catalogs, brochures or books and cut out whatever "speaks to you" and then glue those images into your journal.  

I now have three of these journals.  

Early morning is a good time to go through the pages...and meditate.  

Feeling down?  Open the journal and you will find your thoughts become lighter.  

You will have a sense of joy and contentment.  

Sometimes the pages will spur the imagination.  

Morning

When in the fresh morning I go into my garden before anyone is awake,

I go for the time being into perfect happiness.

~Ceilia Thaxter

Happiness

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher


Have a great weekend!

The Way I See It #89

This was on the side of my Starbucks coffee cup today.

The Way I See It #89

Recipe for happiness: an insatiable curiosity, a joy of discovery, quick to forgive, hold no grudges, love without condition, stay loyal to the death, see the best and ignore the rest - wow, we can learn a lot from man's best friend!--Nick Bolletieri, Tennis coach and founder of the Nick Bolletieri Tennis Academy.

So true.