I just finished Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project which explores her year- long journey looking for the path to a happier life. As I wrote last week, I found many of her ideas to be so uplifting. A gratitude journal, making new friends, starting a children's literature reading group, be a treasure house of happy memories -- all these and many more comprise strategies Gretchen devised in her year of the project. Her first rule, "Be Gretchen," seems to be the most basic but perhaps most challenging. Just as Polonius says to Laertes, "To thine own self be true." Achieving authenticity is a feat.
When I finished the The Happiness Project, I was delighted to find that I could order a Happiness Project Toolbox, could follow Gretchen Rubin on Twitter, and form my own Happiness Group with the help of a starter kit that she would send me. So, much like Gretchen, I am launching another project. First a blog, then twitter, now the Happiness Project.... when will I find time to teach?
Speaking of teaching, next week, I am writing a bit about Brave New World. I am wondering if Huxley resonates for the seniors of 2010 as powerfully as it always has for me. Community, Identity, Stability.... hmmmm
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