Sally Huss - Addicted to Happiness!

Hold the Scalpel! by Sally Huss

"You can find something beautiful anywhere you look, if you are looking for something beautiful."

 

(Happy Musings is a newspaper feature syndicated by King Features that I create each day to remind us all that “Life is wonderful!”  I offer it here to brighten your day.  Please share it with your friends.)

 

I remember long ago in Psychology 101 my teacher explaining how a need or intention alerted the subconscious to bring to the forefront those things that fulfilled that need or intention.  The example he gave at that time was that if you were driving along a highway and became hungry, you would continually notice restaurants along the way.  Naturally, that’s an easy one and one that we have all experienced.  But, in the same way you can find something beautiful anywhere you look, if you are looking for something beautiful.

 

Right now, it is very important to look for something beautiful, something positive, something uplifting.  These things are everywhere.  The intention sets your sifting mechanism and the things you are looking for will be found.  There is much to see and much to distract us from the better things in life.  Sometimes those distractions are of the coarsest, loudest and most unseemly of things available in our realm.  But we can make adjustments -- change channels, change stations, change locations, change friends.  As we do, we make way for the beautiful things.

 

The really good things are the subtle things, the sweet things, the things that lift our spirits.  We need to look for them.  They are there in our surroundings whether those surroundings are of nature or are filled with high rises and people.

 

This idea of looking for something beautiful must also be applied to ourselves.  How important is it that we see our own beauty?  Very.  Not that we created it, but we can certainly appreciate it and find it by looking for it.

 

I knew a woman once who was brimming with self-appreciation.  She and her husband ran a popular restaurant in Palm Desert, California.  She was just beautiful!  Yet her face was covered with wrinkles.  She was a great skier, tennis player and swimmer and obviously, lover of the sun.  Not one wrinkle covered her beauty.  I always admired her because she was as she was, which was an exception to the local women who tended to try to correct every “blemish” with cosmetic surgery.  Yes, it was easy to see this woman’s beauty, even if you were not looking for it.

 

When I look in the mirror, I could see only the wrinkles on my face.  But then, I would miss the light in my eyes or the underlying beauty of the life that is within that is forever working towards well-being.  So, I honor that life by smiling at this hidden beauty.

 

You can always find something beautiful anywhere you look, if you are looking for something beautiful because it is looking for you.

 

 

Smiles,

Sally

“Life is wonderful! Don’t forget it.”

 

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(To view my gallery of original art and peek at my extensive line of bright and happy products, including THE HAPPY BOOK, bibs, nursery wall décor, totes and purses, and gifts with thoughtful thoughts, go to:  www.sallyhuss.com.)

 

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c 2008 Sally Huss

Mary Poppins was Right! by Sally Huss

"Fun is the best taskmaster!"

 

(Happy Musings is a newspaper feature syndicated by King Features that I create each day to remind us all that “Life is wonderful!”  I offer it here to brighten your day.  Please share it with your friends.)

 

Mary Poppins was right!  She knew that “a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down.”  To her sugar meant some kind of fun.  Fun is the best taskmaster!  Kids know it.  Teachers and parents know it.  Now, to act on this knowing when it has to do with your own activities, is a good habit to have.  It always comes down to attitude. No matter how you try to get around it, it is attitude that makes the difference in the doings that we have to do.

 

A youngish woman came into my gallery this morning with a definite intention.  “Give me that one about the dirty laundry!” 

 

I pulled the piece of gift art off of the wall.  She explained that her circumstances had changed recently and she no longer had a housekeeper, one who did her laundry.  It was now her task to care for the family’s clothes.  She said that she had never bothered about her laundry room in the past – no frills, no decorations of any kind.  But now that she was doing the laundry, she wanted to spice up this activity and wanted this particular saying on the wall of that little room.

 

As I wrapped the framed piece, I read it again.  “Dirty laundry reminds me that someone has worked, someone has played, someone has eaten, someone has slept, and someone has enjoyed their day just as they will tomorrow if someone like me takes care with what they have to wear.”  This particular thought gives a whole new meaning to doing laundry.  It may not be the most fun job in a home, but it is necessary and if you are elected, it still can be joyful.  

 

We are the ones who put the fun in our lives, whether it’s on the job or at play.     

 

Smiles,

Sally

“Life is wonderful! Don’t forget it.”

 

I would like to add you to my friends’ list.  Please make a comment if you like.  I am trying to connect with as many like-minded people as possible. 

 

(To view my gallery of original art and peek at my extensive line of bright and happy products, including THE HAPPY BOOK, bibs, nursery wall décor, totes and purses, and gifts with thoughtful thoughts, go to:  www.sallyhuss.com.)

 

Email: sally@sallyhuss.com

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c 2008 Sally Huss

Love the Way It Is by Sally Huss

"To love the way it is, is wise.  To love the way it isn't, is just as wise."

 

(Happy Musings is a newspaper feature syndicated by King Features that I create each day to remind us all that “Life is wonderful!”  I offer it here to brighten your day.  Please share it with your friends.)

 

Wise is good.  To gather wisdom is really wise.  One of the wisest people I know is Therese Furino Boni, an older French-Italian grand dame.  She taught me one of the wisest things I have ever learned – to see things as they are.  With our wishes and desires we tend to put a negative or positive spin on things.  Yet, the way it is, is always just that.  By placing no judgment on something or someone, a person sees clearly things as they are and is able to deal with all kinds of situations freely, spontaneously and in the “now”.

 

I took that idea of viewing things as they are to heart.  I learned to love that point of view.  I learned to love the way it is, which included loving the way it isn’t. 

 

I could see this concept so clearly when I taught tennis.  I myself had been raised to be a champion in the traditional way and therefore had a perfectionist’s point of view.  I could see the interference this made in everything I did – judging everything, wanting something one way when it wasn’t.  Then later, after my competitive days, as I taught tennis I could see the judgment my students made on his or her shots with the accompanying up or down emotions.  The ball was not just hit into the net.  It was hit into the net “Ugh!”  The ball was not hit out.  It was hit out “Damn!”  And, of course, with each judgment and change of emotional state a person’s attention is lost on that which is always moving and changing – the ball.

 

That’s the way it is with life – moving and changing.  Just when you think you’ve got your ducks in a row, life changes the line up.

 

So the solution, it seems to me, is to love things the way they are.  That’s the wisest point of view that I’ve come across.  If you find something better, let me know! 

 

Smiles,

Sally

“Life is wonderful! Don’t forget it.”

 

I would like to add you to my friends’ list.  Please make a comment if you like.  I am trying to connect with as many like-minded people as possible. 

 

(To view my gallery of original art and peek at my extensive line of bright and happy products, including THE HAPPY BOOK, bibs, nursery wall décor, totes and purses, and gifts with thoughtful thoughts, go to:  www.sallyhuss.com.)

 

Email: sally@sallyhuss.com

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c 2008 Sally Huss

Loving Kindness, Got some? by Sally Huss

"Loving kindness spreads like wildfire when given a little spark."

 

(Happy Musings is a newspaper feature syndicated by King Features that I create each day to remind us all that “Life is wonderful!”  I offer it here to brighten your day.  Please share it with your friends.)

 

Do not underestimate the power of loving kindness.  Poor humanity, it’s not very developed as yet.  We’re not far beyond our animal nature.  That’s the one that is me, me, me – fearful and selfish.  But our next step, I believe, is to just reach a level of “loving kindness” universally.  It doesn’t seem like asking very much, but it’s what we need to do now – to operate with loving kindness in all our activities. 

 

I remember as a young person being in the presence of some very wise people.  And, it was their opinion that loving kindness was humanity’s next level of evolvement. It takes a long while for everyone to get on the same page, but that’s the page we need to get on.  As we can see from what goes on around the world and even in this country there is much to be done to achieve this fairly elementary level of brotherly love. 

 

A few years ago there was a clever ad on TV from the Almond Association.  They were trying to bring awareness to the fact that there were a lot of almonds to be had and we should help out.  A man stood up to his waist in almonds and held up a can of almonds, stating, “All we ask is one can a week.”

 

That’s what we need to do for each other on this subject – “All we ask is to act with loving kindness.” 

 

The drive and ambition to get ahead sometimes leaves kindness in its wake.  We might be benefiting ourselves in a greater way by putting kindness first.  To get ahead, might just be to take a step back into kindness.  It does spread like wildfire when given a little spark.

 

Smiles,

Sally

“Life is wonderful! Don’t forget it.”

 

I would like to add you to my friends’ list.  Please make a comment if you like.  I am trying to connect with as many like-minded people as possible. 

 

(To view my gallery of original art and peek at my extensive line of bright and happy products, including THE HAPPY BOOK, bibs, nursery wall décor, totes and purses, and gifts with thoughtful thoughts, go to:  www.sallyhuss.com.)

 

Email: sally@sallyhuss.com

Sign up for our Happy News at:  http://www.sallyhuss.com/signup.htm

c 2008 Sally Huss