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I think everyone should have a happy place.
When I was seven years old I would walk down to a stream not far from my house. Beside it was a weeping willow. I would crawl under its branches and watch all the goings on in the creek: the frogs, the skipping bugs, the butterflies. Even at that age I was journaling. I would write poetry and bad Narnia fan fiction!
I still like hanging out in natural surroundings. I also love sitting at an outdoor cafe, and chatting or reading a book I have just picked up from the library.
So, do you have any happy places?
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Welcome to #CheckIn for SATURDAY 2025-05-31
I think everyone should have a happy place.
When I was seven years old I would walk down to a stream not far from my house. Beside it was a weeping willow. I would crawl under its branches and watch all the goings on in the creek: the frogs, the skipping bugs, the butterflies. Even at that age I was journaling. I would write poetry and bad Narnia fan fiction!
I still like hanging out in natural surroundings. I also love sitting at an outdoor cafe, and chatting or reading a book I have just picked up from the library.
So, do you have any happy places?
Today’s topic is suggested by @Muse but there’s always an element of randomness. Grab your beverage preference (pixel or not), follow Wheaton’s Law and enjoy the space.
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Pharrell Williams - Happy (Video)
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I am also quite fond of the mouth of the Klamath river.
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;-\
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(I Just) Died In Your Arms ~ Cutting Crew
[I Just] Died In Your Arms
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"Stuck in the Middle"
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Stuck In The Middle With You
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Joseph Teller •
I used to be more RL social than I am now... my online acquaintances now are a means to find some common connection with someone besides my wife and my few surviving distant rl friends and family. Covide did a number on everything in my life even though I managed to never get it, along with my own physical limitations and the horrible political landscape and how its affecting the city I chose as home.
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🙁 🙁 🙁
some refuge in reading these days, but few and far between...
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Carsten Raddatz •
So a garden, yeah, but a German proverb says resting is rusting. So happy place implies moving about the space, which can be as big as a city, as playground for #ingress. Or it might be a fun walk watching doggo interacting, exploring and getting wet in instantaneous friendships.
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Mark Wollschlager •
Often fleeting, but fairly easy to reclaim even for a short time.
I am in constant awe of the world around me, having lived a 'charmed life' that has not turned the world against me.
But to be a little more specific,a sunny day in a field, a music concert, a mountain top, dinner with friends, snuggling with a loved one.
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Lisa Stranger •
I discovered this by sitting in screened enclosures at my parents' homes.
I have not once, ever, succeeded in having a screened enclosure at any of my own homes. That is one of the myriad unfinished projects here. 😒 On paper there briefly was one at our previous house, but it had been slapped together with indoor wood and rapidly disintegrated after we moved in. Plus it turned out I was allergic to the endless supply of decaying leaves there, so I probably could not have sat outside anyway.
We also enjoyed very much walking on the beach. In fact that's why we moved here in particular—it's the only form of "exercise" I've ever enjoyed. I think we got out there once since we moved 3 years ago. Now Mr. Stranger can't walk like that. I'm air-hungry again fro... show more
I discovered this by sitting in screened enclosures at my parents' homes.
I have not once, ever, succeeded in having a screened enclosure at any of my own homes. That is one of the myriad unfinished projects here. 😒 On paper there briefly was one at our previous house, but it had been slapped together with indoor wood and rapidly disintegrated after we moved in. Plus it turned out I was allergic to the endless supply of decaying leaves there, so I probably could not have sat outside anyway.
We also enjoyed very much walking on the beach. In fact that's why we moved here in particular—it's the only form of "exercise" I've ever enjoyed. I think we got out there once since we moved 3 years ago. Now Mr. Stranger can't walk like that. I'm air-hungry again from lack of B12, so I probably couldn't either.
My happy places run away from me. They get within tantalizing reach, then... poof
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i've managed to survive thus far.
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In the story I am presently writing, the central character has a happy place several times mentioned, a theater stage where she liked to dance, rehearsing choreography or just trancing out
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLMrenP_nFc
Wayne Shorter - Footprints (Live At Montreux 1991)
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Torrey Pines Beach, San Diego Zoo/Balboa Park, my own back yard.
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Carsten Raddatz •
Then again, I screenshotted a map of Taipei with markings of where I walked, and which came up in Chinese for me, so you get to benefit from that too.
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