Moments

Welcome to my blog.

I've decided that my blog should have a theme.  I guess I'm just a put things in boxes kind of girl. Therefore, a theme.  I chose one of my favorite words...felicity.  Although summarized by most as happiness, to me it contains a particular form of happiness.

Happy is too broad, joy is too bursting.  I prefer the calm, meditative reassurance of felicity.  I also appreciate its second definition in this literary application, "the ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts".

Marianne Dashwood gushes to her sister,"Is there a felicity in the world superior to this?".   However Marianne tends toward over-indulgence in her sensibilities.  Such passionate souls, as she remarks herself, often meet with tragic ends.  I will borrow Marianne's word with less passion, more positive reinforcement.

Here's what I mean...

I have spent a lot of my first forty years waiting, hoping, and expecting a feeling of constant happiness..."Do I feel happy today, or not?"  I admit I have seen the glass half empty, believing that someday it would be filled. 

But in those years there were moments.  

Moments when I would look at where I was, in the moment I was, and in that moment...I felt felicity.  I am slowly coming to realize that I didn't need to find or make the moments, I just need to recognize that they are always there.

And so my blog is one for moments of felicity.....lots, and lots, and lots of them.