My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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Monthly Archives: May 2008



This Saturday: a happiness quotation from Marguerite Yourcenar.

“Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.” –Marguerite Yourcenar This ties into my resolution to Spend out — that resolution encompasses several meanings, but it includes the self-admonition to stop worrying about what’s going to be most efficient and productive, and to be willing to wander, to follow my own interests, …


It’s Friday: time to think about YOUR Happiness Project. This week: Connect with your past.

I’m working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone’s project will look different, but it’s the rare person who can’t benefit. Join in — no need to catch up, just jump in right now. Each Friday’s post will help you think about your own happiness project. One of my newer happiness-project resolutions is to “Connect with …


Happiness is reading a good memoir.

I love reading spiritual memoirs, and memoirs of catastrophe, and memoirs of other people’s Happiness Projects (though they don’t call them “happiness projects,” that’s what they are). So I was very interested to read Trish Ryan’s memoir, He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: A Memoir of Finding Faith, Hope, and Happily Ever After. It’s a combo of all three …