things I think about when I have time to think

I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized, this is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again.     - Nicole Kidman. While I doubt Nicole Kidman and I have much else in common, our philosophy on happiness is shared.   And this pic is one of my such happy-snap "moments". I don't believe that happiness is an end-point , a goal, ...a place we reach on that "one day", when all our dreams come true. Happiness is in the fragments , the small everyday moments of our lives, so often unnoticed and disregarded.  It is found in the noticing of them and the acknowledging of them, ...consciously pausing , lingering and soaking them in as they float gently by. I remember the first time I truly realised this.  It was a summer evening and we were driving to the beach for a spontaneous picnic dinner, just a very ordinary and frequent event during that particular season of our lives.  I was with my husband and