The moment.... The haPPiness....

"I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then." Clarissa Vaughn, The Hours (2002).
Not only a rare morning which brought with it a sense of possibility, but an entire day spent reading the messages and talking to my kind of folks finally forced me to end my hiatus and return to my love for the written word. The highlight though is yet another cosmic reminder that it's these people, who choose to consider you worth their while, that possess the concealed but oh so fantastical ability to let you experience that moment of pure joy... Happiness in the truest sense of the word. Perhaps the only other moment in life that replicated this sense of wonderment was my first snowfall. For a brief moment I felt transported into those magical worlds that my mother read to me about every night before bed hoping that I would grow up but never grow out of my sense of amazement at some of the riches of this rather paradoxical world that we live in. So here's to fantastical tales and moments of true magic and remarkable joy.....