Are you tired of those piss weak ‘friendship’ poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality?

Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship.

You will see no cute little smiley faces on this card –  Just the stone cold truth of a great friendship. Continue Reading »

A selection of some of National Geographic images of pairs of animals and people. Beautiful stuff!

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Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.

Old Age, I decided, is a gift.
I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror (who looks like my mother/father!), but I don’t agonize over those things for long. Continue Reading »

Journalist and writer Benjamin Wallace asks the question: Does happiness have a price tag?

We know from personal experience that advertising tells us what should make us feel good but when one samples the things considered to be “the best” how do they really compare? This short presentation gives us some insight into the answer to this.