Moments of Happiness

By Kim Nelson, on June 23rd, 2010%


“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”
~Ashley Montague

…

Sunrise on a summer morn.

The moment each of my children was born.

Seeing him cross a crowded room.

Witnessing someone I care for bloom.

Weddings when the match is right.

Achieving the goal that took all one’s might.

A simple meal, a glass of wine.

Knowing, regardless, that all will be fine.

Because I let happiness seize me.


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Choose

By Kim Nelson, on May 20th, 2010%

“Happiness Depends Upon Ourselves”

        ~ Aristotle

Dear Ari,

 When you’re right, you’re right.

 Love, Kim

 ~ CHOOSE ~

~ ? ~

Choose to be happy

To depend on yourself

To find joy by the end of each day.

~

Choose to be honest

To live only the truth

No regrets; ne’er deceive or betray.

~

Choose to be valiant

To look fear in the face

Straighten shoulders; lift your chin and love.

~

Choose to be brilliant

To let your light so shine

That the Gods seek you out, from above.

~

This

Is to live.

Choose.

~ ? ~

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Happiness Hiding

By Kim Nelson, on March 9th, 2010%

“Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.”

~ Yehuda Amichai

  

In the midst of the trial,

The tunnel’s length and breadth

Swallowed up its ending light.

Or did our anger and our grief

Destroy that, too?

 In the dark, we clung

We to He

You to Me

Me to You

Fear of death

~ Worse yet ~

Fear of life like this

Stopped us in our tracks

And then

Pushed!

 Pushed us

To push back, push on, push through.

Stubborn will, paternal fight, future’s-sight

Love

Were all we knew.

And they grew

Until

Thanks to the process? … luck? … good will?

We found the happiness.

Always there. Never gone.

Hiding just behind,

All along.

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