ABSTRACT
Kathleen Dean Moore’s chapter recounts her experiment keeping brief notes over a twelve-month period, documenting experiences that made her feel happy. This essay reads as a brief clutch of beautiful, deeply personal recollections, detailing the meaningful, surprising, and mundane. Moore lists things that made her feel truly happy, indicates necessary conditions for enabling these, and lists recurring themes. Overlapping with other chapters in the book, happiness themes including contact with the natural world, stimulating ideas, meaningful work, celebratory arts, and time to pause, reflect, and enjoy. The editors gratefully acknowledge permission granted by Shambhala to reproduce this essay that first appeared in Wild comfort: The solace of nature (2010).
