What happiness rituals can we cultivate for ourselves? What are the happiest countries? What can we learn from them? March 20th 2023 was International Day of Happiness, I was delighted to celebrate it with two events at Caledonian University – those that happened to attend were African and so much fun to be with. In South […]
I often wonder what would have happened if my sister Laura who I was staying with at the time hadn’t encouraged me and rallied all her pals together to come to my first public event in Ruthven Lane (just off Byres Road in Glasgow.) The last thing I wanted to do was have fun or laugh! I […]
Joyworks celebrated it’s fiftieth birthday on Tuesday! I set the timer for I know from happiness research that we have more fun when there’s a time limit on things. Guess that’s why remembering our lives are short and this could be our last day can be so profound for our joy So here’s my top […]
A wee note to our Papa and who’d be 96 today…… (18th Feb) We all live in our own places now Pop. We do our own thing on a Sunday. I rarely take the train. I’m rarely in Kilmaurs. Laura’s in Australia. Lyndsay’s in England. Stacey’s in New Zealand. Shirley Ann is with you. It […]
‘Breathing in, I see myself as a flower. I am the freshness of a dewdrop. Breathing out, my eyes have become flowers. Please look at me. I am looking with the eyes of love. Breathing in, I am a mountain, imperturbable, still, alive, vigorous. Breathing out, I feel solid. The waves of emotion can never […]
It would have been my Papa’s birthday on 18th February. He was an amazing man and such a character. He had a hard life but was pure JOY and taught me so much. I wonder what he’d think of me now? He’d often say, “Oh hen you’re awfu serious. You want to lighten up! And […]
Happy New Year Dear Ones On New Year’s Morning, my 53 teen Birthday I opened the living room blinds and was struck at how the clouds were moving. Later, on my love Paolo drove me to Kelvingrove park – I was moved to tears to be there! To be with him, see the birds […]
‘Laughter is brightest when food is best.’ Irish Proverb In November 2020 despite having given up sugar, alcohol, caffeine, and wheat for three months I was still gravely ill. I was lucky that I had a loving tribe to support me as I went deeper on to the Ayurveda Path. NHS Specialists were at […]
5. Spend time outside For two months I was mostly content to watch the clouds and birds from my window. On June 3rd I got outside! The enormous smiley buttercups were blethering with me along with the blackbird and her shiny matching yellow beak. The blades of grass were long and pointy enveloping me in […]
Well, it has been a while. 16th April 2020 to be exact. Who could have imagined that that would be my last newsletter? That it would be the last ever ‘Let us Have a Joy in Instead’ I could never have imagined just how much I would tap into those memories but more of that […]
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