Wandering Mind, What???

   Still on my Happiness course, last week she talked about simple kindness, making us happy. I do hope I know that by now, but it never hurts to be reminded. She, the professor with the cute chair, also said, " A wondering mind is an unhappy mind?" I sat up straight, and told her, "Sister, I am not on this train of thought!"
   I am one of the most happy people I know, and my mind is a wandering fool!! I can be still as a corpse, but my mind is in constant motion. ( another reason, I sleep so poorly) I have three books going right now, and just finished two. I saw one half of a play last week, and visited a spot that was so special. I text and visit with friends daily, paint, clean, cook, garden, shop online!! Listen to music, rearrange furniture, watch my Wyatt, write letters to my Adrian at camp, check on mom and dad daily!! Laugh, a million times a day, watch TV, go to movies, concerts, sometimes all in one day!!!! And I blog, to release some of this circus in my head!! but my spirit and physical body, are calm as a cucumber. I pray all day, and night....and I am happy. Does my life have bad things going on, daily!!
All around you and I, things can be horrible. Cancer, Addiction, loss of people, living and dead. Worry and fear can consume me, in a jack-flash minute, happiness keeps the demons in check.
I truly don't know why everyone is not happy, dancing in the streets.Think about baby goats!! that will make anyone happy for a minute or two. Books, books and more books, research, google, to be present in this moment. Not looking at yesterday or tomorrow. People and their talents make me happy, Owls make me happy. A wandering mind works for me. Whatever works for you, do it, and pass it on!!! Reading Eleanor( another name for BA) Oliphant, it is wonderful. Reading Back Lash, by George Yancy, every white human and others, required reading. Rick Bragg's book The Best Cook In The World, Tales from Momma's Table, its a jewel, southern and dripping with bacon grease, delish!!
 Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley, fantastic essays, and pearls of wisdom. Here are a few.
      1. You are who you kiss good-bye
      2. Jewish guilt is no match for teenage entitlement.
      3. When the basic becomes exotic, you're in trouble.
      4. What the mind really is, is Tupperware container full of leftover noodles!!!!!
      5. You don't stop being who you are when you reach a certain age. You know that, right?
  I have so many highlighted, I can not stop, OK two more.
      6. Because periods are refugee camps for all nondescript maladies
      7. No one needs to know you have a full life with almost no cats!!!
Happy, Happy, Joy, books.
      Also finished David Sedaris new book, Calypso. I love everything he writes, I think he is my relative and friend.
      I realized something last week that made me so happy, all my friends make me laugh. Either I have attracted funny people,  or I make them laugh, or both. Dr. Bill was with me and two girlfriends for an overnight trip, and on the way home I told him, "Thanks for going with me, I know we girls suck up the space and air in the room!" He said, " I love to listen to you, and see you laugh so hard with your girlfriends". ( we seriously never stop talking and laughing) I love all of my friends, they make me happy, my Harvard professor ( she may be from Yale, I forgot) needs to tap into that happiness juice.
   Now to end my purge of a wandering brain, last week, I felt like a tingle in my chest. I was on fb just trolling, and several times, it was a jolt to my chest. I looked around I thought maybe I was sitting on something that was vibrating?! Like someones phone, or TV remote. I grabbed my rib area several times, and figured I was one ambulance ride away from a heart attack. I got up, walked around, nothing, sat back down, was rubbing my face, and it happened a tingle in my face, I looked at my hands and there it was, MY NEW FITBIT was trying to tell me all kinds of things!! Damn why did I ask for a new one for my birthday, with all the bells and whistles that I hate. It was electrocuting me, my heart rate, my lack of a million steps, texting info, lord I thought it was my time!! and I hollered, now that is happy!! A purple fitbit, and no heart attack or stroke at this second!!
  Enjoy your Sunday, make happy come to you, and share some with others. GO on Amazon and order Dee's Nuts, another happy thing this week. The Dill pickle and Banana pudding nuts, had me falling out with happiness, I promise you, a game changer.
   Love you
     B