The Taste of Happiness

— Thanks for joining me here during my social media sabbatical month. I’m pre-posting some best-ofs etc this month as well as some thematic posts drawing on a richness that is 10 years of blogging in this space. — Today’s theme is happiness. And I admit, I’m surprised by how many posts on Transactions with Beauty show up in a search for the word happiness. — I’m still taken with the phrase taken from Joseph Brodsky’s Watermark: “the synonyms of happiness.” — And I love the word eudaimonia, which means human flourishing. — I never think about writing and that sort of happiness without Ondaatje’s lines popping into my head. — I’ve been reading poems on happiness just now and it’s interesting how many have people splitting a sandwich, or a dessert, or sipping a coffee. It’s happiness in spite of, often. — The poem by Raymond Carver is no exception, beginning, “So early it’s still almost dark out. / I’m near the window with coffee, / and the usual early morning stuff / that passes for…

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