Latest Essay: A Very Short Essay on Happiness
Latest List: Joyful Pieces of Popular Music
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say’. ~Anaïs Nin
Latest List: Joyful Pieces of Popular Music
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say’. ~Anaïs Nin
‘I try to leave out the parts that people skip’. ~Elmore Leonard
Welcome
You have found my writing blog. Principally a novelist and essayist, I enjoy writing on a very wide range of subjects.
I am also a life-long maker of lists, so an at least vaguely associated list will appear with each new essay. They are intended to get you thinking and maybe disagreeing, occasionally to prick your anger, to force you to confront your own views.
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Please add your comments. I look forward to discovering them and will respond as soon as possible.
I ALSO KEEP A LONDON BLOG, A MIXTURE OF ORIGINAL PHOTOS, OBSERVATIONS AND DISCUSSION ABOUT THE GREATEST CITY ON EARTH.................www.williamruby.blogspot.co.uk/
LATEST ESSAY:
A Very Short Essay on Happiness
- Live for the moment as often as you can remember to do so (this is not easy!); don’t dwell too much on the past.....don't plan ahead quite so much
- The glass is usually half full. Do count those blessings.
- Immerse yourself in something you love doing and that seems to make time melt away (as I am doing now).
- Concentrate on the positives in your work and career and try forget the rest (you will fail, but give it a go).
- Treat yourself occasionally.......but not to the point of spoiling the child within.
- Act happy: sing, laugh, lark about a bit
- Be a small part of something bigger and more important than you, whether it’s your work or some other enterprise. Contribute and sleep easy at night.
- Exercise within your own limits and eat and drink as well as you possibly can.
- Vary your regime a bit.......be spontaneously spontaneous.
- Be kind: always.
- Have something to look forward to. Anticipation is a wonderful drug.
- Audit the everyday things that make you happy........clean sheets on the bed, the smell of baking bread, your cat lying in the sun, the laughter of your children........
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open-
John Barrymore
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life-
Omar Khayyam
Latest list:
Joyful Pieces of Popular Music
Isn't She Lovely? Stevie Wonder
What A Wonderful World Louis Armstrong
Feeling Good Nina Simone
Lovely Day Bill Withers
Sweet Disposition The Temper Trap
You'll Never Walk Alone Gerry and the Pacemakers
Finally Ce Ce Peniston
Oh! What a Beautiful Morning from Oklahoma
Top of the World The Carpenters
Don't Stop Me Now Queen
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