A little poem about happiness by Robert Alan.

My amaryllis, read more about this flower.

This moment is mine.
I live for this moment.
I will make the most of this moment.
I choose to be happy.
I am not going to worry about the future.
I am not going to regret the past.
I am leaving behind all the hurts
that I’ve carried with me.
I forgive everyone I felt has hurt me.
I forgive myself for hurting someone else.
I choose to be happy because
This moment is mine.

I will share my happiness with everyone
who shares this moment with me,
for when I share my happiness,
I feel good about myself,
and my happiness will grow.
I can share this happiness
without expecting anything in return.
If it’s returned I’ll feel happy.
But if it isn’t,
I’ll still feel happiness,
Because I shared my happiness,
And my happiness comes from within me.
I choose to be happy,
For this moment, is mine.

-Robert Alan

We don’t get any snow out here, but there is plenty in the mountains. Hopefully this year we’ll make a trip just to play in the snow. In the meantime, I have this poem on my mind today.

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

- Robert Frost

No crows in this photo, but just loved how the photo shows autumn is coming to an end soon enough. This is to remind me to get ready and protect my succulent plants! Photo by MetalSmiths of wunderground.com

The Winds of Fate

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.

‘Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life:

‘Tis the set of the soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Artwork by Ira Barkoff.  Image source.

I’ve always loved this poem. I came across it at a time when I really needed to read it to myself. So I wrote it down somewhere and now I found it again. I thought I would share it here.

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Beauty of a Woman

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; Never throw out anybody.

Remember, If you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!

- written by the late eduactor-humorist Sam Levinson.

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