Update: The Book of Happy
Jul. 10th, 2013 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
untonugganJust a quick update on what I have dubbed The Book of Happy. THANK YOU to everyone who has supported, lurked, read, contributed, and reccomended things to include. You are all wonderful people.
I thought I would share a few of the less personal pages just as a general thank-you, and to give people an idea of what a Book of Happy can be like if you want to go all art-journal on it. (Obviously, digital file=best system for some; binder with loose paper=another good system; mp3 playlist=another tool; no work for brain at all=completely legit. Different brains, different methods. Etc.)
I know I posted one page the other day, it's in the Flickr set that I may or may not be updating regularly with excerpts from it. Full set of photos is on Flickr, but I'll post one here. Also, lizcommotion does not have spoons at this second for transcribing All The Pages, so plz bear with her as she does so. Sorry for the accessibility outage, if anyone wants to comment here or on Flickr with transcriptions that would be awesome and helpful.
Transcript: Notebook page with a pink owl sticker, alternating between different scripts as lizcommotion is able (mostly cursive, upper case, and regular handwriting.)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ros
"Life is a journey, not a destination." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Dark and difficult days lie ahead, and we must all face the choice betwen what is right and what is easy." ~ Albus Dumbeldore
"Don't forget about chocolate (and Demetors)" [note to myself left throughout the BoH]
More happy-to-lizcommotion on Flickr
I thought I would share a few of the less personal pages just as a general thank-you, and to give people an idea of what a Book of Happy can be like if you want to go all art-journal on it. (Obviously, digital file=best system for some; binder with loose paper=another good system; mp3 playlist=another tool; no work for brain at all=completely legit. Different brains, different methods. Etc.)
I know I posted one page the other day, it's in the Flickr set that I may or may not be updating regularly with excerpts from it. Full set of photos is on Flickr, but I'll post one here. Also, lizcommotion does not have spoons at this second for transcribing All The Pages, so plz bear with her as she does so. Sorry for the accessibility outage, if anyone wants to comment here or on Flickr with transcriptions that would be awesome and helpful.
Transcript: Notebook page with a pink owl sticker, alternating between different scripts as lizcommotion is able (mostly cursive, upper case, and regular handwriting.)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ros
"Life is a journey, not a destination." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Dark and difficult days lie ahead, and we must all face the choice betwen what is right and what is easy." ~ Albus Dumbeldore
"Don't forget about chocolate (and Demetors)" [note to myself left throughout the BoH]
More happy-to-lizcommotion on Flickr
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Date: 2013-07-10 01:32 pm (UTC)What a beautiful strawberry!
Poem: The Orange, but Wendy Cope
At lunchtime I bought a huge orange
The size of it made us all =laugh=.
I peeled it and shared it with Rupert? Robert? and Dave -
They got quarters and I had a half.
And that orange it made me so happy,
as ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park.
This is peace and contentment. It's new.
The rest of the day was quite easy.
I did all my jobs on my list
And enjoyed them and had some time over.
I love you. I'm glad I exist.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY (a short excerpt):
• dogs, especially Rogue + Scramble + their memories?
• loved ones ♡
• pumpkins
• Harry Potter fandom
• The Avengers especially Steve Rogers
• Tea. ♡
• Chocolate
• Baking
• Knitting, Spinning, Yarn/Fabric Dyeing, etc. CRAFTS!
• Dreamwidth
• talking to friends ♡
• Listening to music
• Listening to birdsong, the ocean, frogs, or the wind in the trees
• Talking to Kiran, Naveen, + Navyn
• Writing Letters
• remembering Glitch, + Glitchian acts of Kindness
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Date: 2013-07-10 01:45 pm (UTC)(I'm working on the Love Meme page for anyone who's wondering!)
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Date: 2013-07-10 01:46 pm (UTC)(Good luck! I'm having a hard time making out anything in the green ink, so I'mma leave it with one page. Also I should go. Sleep. Or something. ¬¬;;)
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Date: 2013-07-10 02:21 pm (UTC)Image: Scan of a notebook page, with a picture of one woman offering a rose to another (The Rose by Thea Proctor) in the centre. Around and beneath the picture, the following is written:
LOVE MEME
"Liz is a really tallented and caring person. SPINNING YARN has become real to me because of HER."
"She's a really excellent, supportive friend to me, especially about my recent mental heath issues, and I can never thank her enough ♡ ♡ ♡."
"I think that just her keeping a really detailed journal through all her health trobles provides a really great resource for those of us who experience simialr thigs. She's also a really great HUB of COMMUNITY - willign to reach out, draw together, signal boost, and everything else." (staranise)
"Yes this. All of this."
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