A TRUE HAPPY HOUR
IT’S TIME FOR RUMINATIONS: NEUROSCIENCE ON SPONTANEOUS AND INSTANTANEOUS HAPPINESS, A PRACTICE OF MIND-FULL-NESS, WITH RUMI AND PRACTICIONERS ANDREW WEIL AND RICK HANSON, WITH WHAT POETRY HAS TO DO WITH IT ALL, INCLUDING WHAT TO MAKE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE ON NATURE DEFICIT DISORDER, GRATITUDE JOURNALS, AND MORE
To the coooool notes of the Beatles, “Hey Jude†(“better better better betterâ€), Frank Sinatra’s “I Wish You Love†(“and in July, a lemonade, to cool you in the summer shadeâ€), Simon and Garfunkle, “Bridge Over Troubled Waters†(“like a bridge over troubled waters, I will lay you downâ€), and Richard and Mimi Farina, “Pack Up Your Sorrows†(“you’ve got to pack up your sorrows, and give them all to me, you would lose them, I know how to use themâ€), we hear AND IN JULY A LEMONADE: A MEDITATION ON TRANSFORMATION BUTTERFLIES DO IT AND POETS DO IT TOO-- WHAT POETRY MAKES OF LIFE’S LEMONS Continue reading
WELL I DECLARE:Â Â LAYING IT ON THE LINE, POST JULY 4 REFLECTIONS ON GAME-CHANGING DECLARATIONS, PURSUITS AS FAR AS POETRY GOES, IN LOVE, LIFE, INDEPENDENCE, RIGHTS, AND OTHER KINDS OF HAPPINESS
Featuring Edna St. Vincent Millay, Duane Esposito, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gary Snyder, Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Nan Lundeen, Kim Addonizio
I (do) declare!
I declare (to goodness)!
