Happiness

I have posted this previously, it still sings to me as applying to both Gregory and me:

Happiness Is Here And Now

Gregory could be singing this piece from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Villiage. In many ways, I am singing it as well.

Happy New Year - 2016

What a year this has been. Helping Gregory live as vital a life as possible at the Lieberman Center, even with my emergency appendectomy, even with Gregory's passage ... I am grateful. I am thankful. I am full. 

Life has given me many gifts, Gregory being the biggest, and has taken back, Gregory being the hardest to return. I look forward to a new year in which to learn how to keep Gregory in my heart and in my mind without the pain it now creates.

I look forward to seeing who I become on my own with the years I have left: the good I can do for others, the adventures I can find for myself, sharing my love and my life with friends and family. I look forward to my continuing to grow, experience, process, write, and understand is possible

Wishing you a very Happy 2016. May your life be one of love, health, financial comfort, and when possible happiness.

Breakfast with Buddha

From Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo.

"Here is Buddhist prayer," he said, and he rolled off a few sentences, "All that we are is the result of what we have thought: It is built on our thoughts, it is made from our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with evil thought, pain follows him, just like the wheels followed the foot of the ox that draws the cart. If a person speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him. like a shadow that never leaves."