Why More Than Happy Thoughts

 

This is a new publication - currently online as a blog.

I will be asking for quotes and poems on this particular blog as I search for ways to weave the fabric of our humanity.

I have often heard the accusation that happy thoughts are just to make us feel better temporarily without dealing with the problem.

If you have something to submit please email me at janetvickers@gmail.com

An example of what I am looking for is something like this from Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese"

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Because the poem doesn't just preach, it invites me to my own sensuality. Our media is focused on money, funding, power and wealth - evan social media over-emphasize wealth and power over the relationship we have with one another.