Happy Wisdom

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From software development and prior to that architecture, learned people have leveraged the power of patterns.  Patterns are structures of learning that can be applied to achieve consistent results.  For architecture its perhaps the golden mean, the mechanisms to create a bridge. In software , my favorite was MVC or model-view-controller .  This is states that User interface must be separate from the data, and from the control ( business logic or execution) .   I've seen folks not follow this pattern and then find themselves updating all three layers of software for changes that otherwise would have been simple had they followed the pattern. Thus we must ask if Happiness has a pattern, if happy wisdom, the two combine, have certain approaches that would glean greater success than just going it in a haphazard sort of way.   Of course I propose there are.   Before I get into the first few, lets discuss why these are not rules or laws .  The trou...

So how can one be happy when a birthday comes when your getting older ?  Let's consider my Happy Wisdom Pattern #1 - Ask a Child Fortunately I still have one or two of them at my disposal.  My youngest, 9 years old, seeing my discontent over my bday and its larger than life number shrugged his little shoulders and said "Daddy, why wouldn't you want to celebrate?"   Celebration is key to it.  With so many high profile deaths you have to be grateful that despite the fame and all the money you lasted longer than they.  You've have just a great time because you've been applying happiness patterns and living every minute with a mind towards creating a memory or with intention.  Life on purpose, and celebrate every day God gives you in this crazy imperfect bus ride we are on .  Especially your birthday ！

Having a little fun with the Sochi Olympics.  What if a Sumo tried some of these events?  My sketch...

  Focassion .  No it's not a new moccasin or shoe.  It's not a contagious disease carried by birds.     I've created this word.  I did this because I have gone on about passion in my writings and yet despite that I don't succeed in achieving them always.   I focus on things that I'm not passionate about.  I get distracted by those things that may be practical, but don't advance my mission on earth. What I really want to do.  So I came up on this term. Focassion.  Is it your focus and your passion?  Focassion. It's a noun. It is the one or two things that you focus on they you really are passionate about.    I suggest there can be at most three Focassions.  I would expect a person to spend at least and hour a day on each.  Because your  Focassion is your life.   So what are mine ?  Right now they are...and I reserve the right to change them.  :) My family-  this is pretty obvious. Bu...

Snow used to be something I really look forward to and I still do but for different reasons.  I think Loving Snow is an climbing hold on the climb  of Mt. Happiness. Loving snow has changed, how I interact with that is different.   When I was younger it was all I could do to get out the door. I wouldn't be dillydallying around the house trying to find the right garments to maintain my warmth. I would run out the door without a care; sneakers , jeans, and maybe a doomed scarf.  Now that I'm a slightly older, I like to watch the snow from the window, with a warm cup of coffee and fuzzy socks.  Yet, what I really like is the muzzling of the everyday grind.  This is especially true in the Seattle region , where plows are rookies that rarely get into the game. I love the way it disrupts the normal patterns of life, forcing us to do different things, to pay attention to nature.  So while I will be perfectly content watching out my window my sons are not. The...

"There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you." - Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003