The rules for a minute poem: 3 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas) 8 syllables in the first line of each stanza 4 syllables in the remaining lines of each stanza rhyme scheme: aabb/ccdd/eeff written in strict iambic meter Recovery in twelve […]
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Be Happy!
I choose to be happy—and I allow myself happiness. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 333-334). Nothing anyone says to me, about me, nothing anyone does for me, thinking detrimental thoughts of me, in a way that feels to me as […]
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For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia—peace and freedom from fear—and aponia—the absence of pain—and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. ~ Wikipedia Resolutions are experiments in absurdity for […]
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