Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Happiness Projects

I think I need to start a new happiness project of some sort. I have researched some on the net. They all have to do with positive attitudes and positive thinking and all that stuff. I have practiced some of that on an off for years. It is kinda like exercising, you have to do more and more and more in order for it to work. Eventually, you are spending all your time on it. I think feelings have much to do with how you behave. I know I cannot be creative when I am tired. Nor can I be as creative when I am experiencing sadness. However, when I think about it, most of my poems have been written while in the throes of dealing with sadness. So maybe it is that certain areas of creativity are disabled by certain types of feelings. Disappointments also affect a persons happiness and creativity.
My happiness project needs to focus on not allowing outside influences like negative feelings to affect how I feel and so not affect my creativity. Being visually creative is what makes me happy. I will need to work on this some more.
Here's a start:

I see the many wild flowers
Here and there on my wild and untouched rocky land.
Deeply purple sage types growing by the rock wall.
Bright hot yellow buttercup looking flowers sweeping across the sage flats
And bouncing cheerily in the breezes.
Brilliant orange blooms on sage green stems of the mallow plants can be seen at random.
Tiny mounds of the desert daisies, like blobs of pale, pale pink dot the desert pavement here and there.
The glowing white beauty of the primroses and the pink tinges they turn into as they die at random are within view.
Ah, what are these majestic looking pinkish purple flowers and those white bushy looking ones over there?
And where do they come from, all these beauties, that light up the environment with such sweeps of color
Set off by the great clumps of dull green sage bushes, wild clumps of grasses, and of course, the cactus' that will soon bloom.
Too, there is the wild onions delicate globes of white blooms on tiny stems.
The beauty of these wild flowers are unmatched, are given by nature freely, are a true source of happiness for those who want to see.
Happiness might be encouraged with simple things like wildflowers accepted gratefully.

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