On the pursuit of happiness

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

The Kindertransporte monument by Liverpool Street station



Roast potatoes



Talking about Affluence + Happiness at the Innovation Reading Circle focused on The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

Spring has sprung - Recent Happiness Experiment entries

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Unpacking my books in the new room with the balcony open



A haircut Saturday with N - including the usual picnic on the steps of the masonic temple at the end of long acre, playing Guess the (Passerby's) Name



Playing the Top Three game with N in the tube



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Ghaly's goal for Spurs against Chelsea in the FA Cup - football at the Bridge with Stu



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Chat with James Bradburne, Steve Moore and Janey Walker in posh caff in Green Park - above all, the spring sunshine (first no coat day of the year)



Listening to Doug Miller's Desert Island Discs - especially Starless and Bible Black by Stan Tracey Quartet (what a title - Dylan Thomas's?)



Meeting Rebecca Wilson from the Saatchi site/Your Gallery (10 million hits a day!) - Dylan playing in the empty caff (Tupelo Honey, Camden Town - the old Van-Bob axis)

Fun & Games - Recent Happiness Experiment entries

8.2.07
Giving a keynote speech without nerves and with a fair fluency - in the case at the Digital Futures conference

Having a chat with Chris Bisson - Kash from the wonderful Shameless

An early morning wander across a freezing Manchester

10.2.07
Getting The Name's Bondi, my old iMac, up&running again in our new room

Reading Ted Hughes' The Iron Giant with D

Putting up my Abram Games print (in the top hall)

Happiness Experiment

OK, I've got it... Today I'm starting an experiment prompted by an idea I heard on the radio this morning. The sugestion (from Carol Craig, sister of Una's friend Marion) is to go to sleep at night thinking of three things that made you happy during the day. I'm going to start off doing it for a month...

2/5/06
Helping choose the Raw Cuts winners
Reading the Ladybird book of Kings with N
Listening to U2 on the way home

What this indicates:
1 combines helping people with film-making/art. 2 involves learning/teaching, resonant pictures and children. 3 is centred on music at the close of the day.