We’ve asked Are You Happy? and had a tremendous response, both in comments and in emails.

And now, as a last hoorah… I’d like to ask you something.

What if…

What if… happiness is about letting go?

What if… we gave up the need to be happy?

What if… we stopped wanting to be happier?

What if… we just let go?

What if… we concentrate instead on living, right here, right now?

What if… we simply gave thanks for being alive, here and now?

I don’t have answers for you. But something is prompting me to question, and living the questions can sometimes be the only thing to do…

It is my hope that happiness will alight, like a butterfly, silently and ever so softly upon your heart. And you’ll breathe deeply and know that you’re ok.

Káren xx

When you feel like the weight of the world is pressing down upon you:

Be Silly!

Take a ride on the Merry Go Round (small child optional)

Jump in puddles

Make sure to avoid the cracks in the footpath when you’re walking down the street

Make weird shapes out of play-dough

Or, do as Paul Wilson suggests in The Little Book of Calm:

Wear Donald Duck underpants. Choose a few childlike accoutrements to remind you of the irreverent, uninhibited, joyous side of life.

Go on!

We live in a society that puts an invisible halo on celebrities, work, money, status and stuff. We’ve been accustomed to living in times of unprecedented levels of material wealth and still have a tendency to experience emotional bankruptcy.

I’m not against material stuff or external success. I don’t care to renounce it, only dethrone it. Happiness is a part of who we are, wherever we are there it is. We only have to unearth it.

The following tips will allow you to find a treasure of happiness within.

Focus on inner wealth

Your inner wealth allows you to experience happiness in the joy of being alive and in the wisdom of knowing all of your needs are met. Inner wealth is expressed when you become kind, gentle and peaceful toward yourselves and others.

Happiness is expressing forgiveness with a generous spirit. When I can transform my fear into love, blame into responsibility, my arrogance into humility, trade my shame, my awkwardness at being human for the wisdom that makes for a loving, kind and creative life… I am happy.

Relationships are the most important element of a happy life

We hunger for joyful connection and meaningful lives. Without both, it’s impossible to be happy.

You can experience our innate goodness and state of happiness by living in a consciousness of love. As you allow love to easily flow in and out of our lives you experience happiness.

Shower yourself with love

Learn to honor and respect yourself. Feed your body with a healthy diet of food, your mind with uplifting, inspiring words, and music and your spirit with everything beautiful. Give the kindness, compassion and friendship you demand from others to you to yourself. Forgive and accept your entire being. When you hold nothing back, life holds nothing back from you.

Be of service to others

When you do good, you feel good. One good deed at a time, one day at a time generates emotional and spiritual wealth. Give freely of your time, talent and money. Actively contribute to peace, compassion, and loving kindness.

Give yourself permission to ask for help

Life is messy and difficult. Give up perfection. It isn’t necessary to “do it all.”

Learn to ask for what you need. What you need is a gift waiting to be claimed. Until you can ask for and receive help, the gift remains unavailable. Allow others to feel and express happiness through their desire to help you. Get out of your own way.

Just be

Happiness becomes available when you lay down the burdens of comparing, competition and striving. When you do a sense of peace and well-being spreads like nectar into every nook and cranny of your being. You are enough today and always.

Hang out with the holy

Toxic relationships will steal your calm and delight. Notice the state of your mind, body and soul when you spend time with friends and family. Do you feel depleted or energized? Do you feel inspired or defeated? There are nearly seven billion people on the planet. Find people who are on the road of Truth and befriend them.

Refuse to rage against the world

Let go of the past and forgive your parents or primary caretakers. Turn off the news and fill your mind with wonderful poetry and your space with a single beautiful flower. Stop waiting to be rescued. You are your own answer.

Find a place or cause, be of service and make a difference on the planet. Choose to respond to life in an extraordinary way. Be the one to energize, motivate and inspire others to do the same.

Recover reverence for the earth

Live with what Matthew Fox, an Episcopal priest, calls radical amazement. Spend time in nature and allow it to heal and nurture you. Visualize and thank our planet, surround it with tiny red hearts and envelope it in gratitude and loving energy before falling asleep at night.

Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk was able to see only good not only in himself but in others. I share his thoughts, “If only they could all see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time. There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more greed… I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.”

I ask you, “Are you willing and ready to live in a state of happiness and bliss?” When you are, you will.

Photo Source: Untitled by Vladimir Fedotov

About our Guest Author

Tess Marshall has a Masters Degree in counseling psychology and is the mover and shaker at TheBoldLife.com.

Author of “Flying By the Seat of Your Soul”, Tess will hold you accountable for being the boldest you’ve ever been in every area of your life! What would you do if you were 10 times bolder?

You’re also invited to follow Tess on Twitter.

I recently read an article on happiness that intrigued me. It talked about filling ourselves up with the people and things that make us most happy; the old ‘jar theory’. It explained that if we take time to notice these, we’ll realise they either take from our jar of happiness or add to it. If we strive to fill our jar to overflowing, we then radiate our joy and happiness to the world. I decided that day, to look for jar fillers; both within and outside myself.

I’m generally a happy person, (well that is when I’m not navel gazing, or giving up something I really enjoy like Tim Tam biscuits); but finding happiness in the ordinary jar fillers has been a gift too. Things like cuddles from nieces, kisses from a Pupstar, laughing for no reason or just a gorgeous melody and rhythm that starts my foot tapping.

I took a backward process, defining the ‘what doesn’t’ so I might find the ‘what does’.

I started by saying I don’t like getting up at 5:30am to get ready for work, but I realised I love watching the day come alive. The silence broken by the call of the first Kookaburra as the darkness lifted on a new day. I said that I don’t like doing housework, but I realised I wouldn’t swap anything for the mess made by precious little hands as we made chocolate cookies together. Who would replace the memories of those smiles and giggles, faces beaming as they licked the mixing spoons with such delight!

Music of course makes me happy too…

• I don’t like heavy metal – but I love classical and opera
• I don’t like grunge – but I’ll dance away just about anywhere to funk, latin or blues
• I don’t like doof doof (electronica) – but acoustic folk is pure contentment
• I don’t like hip hop, rap, punk, techno – but there is a long list of what does make me happy too.

I discovered a wonderful little duo this month that filled the ‘happiness’ criteria: The Paper Kites, an acoustic act from Melbourne, Victoria.

Christina Lacy and Sam Bentley share their quirky stories through some of the most gorgeous harmonies I’ve heard in quite some time. With ability well beyond their obvious years, they’re able to make the thought of a long departure away from a loved one sound so beautiful, that you barely realise that’s what they’re singing about.

My favourite track ‘Conversations’ makes me laugh as Christina sings “Can’t get away from you…. Can’t get away”. It reminds me of times I felt like I was going insane; madly plotting how I could free myself from the mundane conversation I was stuck in, and thinking ‘how can I get away from you!?!’. This train of thought definitely falls into the “laughing at silly things” category! Maybe it’s just the glockenspiel in this track that does it for me, or maybe it is just part of my silly laughing, but it’s a playful little number that I thoroughly enjoy.

The ethereal backing vocals on ‘Arms’ sends a tingle up my spine as Sam sings “What can I give that is all for you? These arms are all I have. I’ll hold you like I do love you…”. Such a simple message delivered with such captivating honesty that I wonder who the song was written about.

I’m not entirely sure that I’ve listened fully to each word in their songs, this month it’s been more a case of the sprinkling of instrumentation, the rhythm and vocals more than the message that has made me happiest. As I said in the beginning, happiness for me in this moment is without the extremes so maybe the ukulele and banjo that feature throughout are what I need, and therefore, the happiest moments for me at this time (that, and a fresh packet of Mint Slice biscuits perhaps).

You can find The Paper Kites here

Your partner and relationship are the source of your second greatest opportunity!

Second?

Well of course! Your first opportunity lies within your Self. But that same authentic whole and real Self is also what will maximise the potential of your Second Opportunity for happiness!

So my Simple Tips for Happiness in Relationships?

• Show up as the most self-aware and real You that you can dig around and find.
  Think about it?  Isn’t “sincere” and “real” the best kind of person you can meet and deal with?
  When someone is heart-breakingly honest about their skills and talents, and their fears and failings, doesn’t that vulnerability attract your admiration?
  Knowing Yourself  and presenting the Authentic You is the most scary and attractive characteristic you can ever offer to anyone, but especially a Loving Partner!
• Be prepared to Love Your Partner with all his/her failings rather than despite them.
  If you thought that you were going to get perfection when you began a committed relationship you must have been forgetting your own imperfections!
  So you have two choices, when faced with flaws. Pretend they’re not there and remain endlessly disappointed. Or offer acceptance of that person just as they are and allow them a chance to grow in front of your eyes. I know which one I think is more exciting to be part of!
• Listen with two ears and talk with one mouth!
  All of us Relationship Specialists bang on endlessly about communication and that’s because without it there can be no relationship. No communication = sham and hollow relationship!
  And the simplest way to do that effectively is to work on the 2:1 principle (2 ears and 1 mouth)! Bearing in mind that your talking will include questions starting with opening gambits like who /what /when /where /why /how, your aim is to get a sense of what it’s like to walk in your partner’s shoes. You won’t always get there but being seen to try to achieve that also wins you their love and appreciation. Go on I dare you!
• Use Love Languages to Deliver a Laser Message of Love.
  Knowing your partner’s Love Language is critical. All relationships lurch and swing through the pendulum of highs and lows. At both ends of that spectrum, it is hard to receive messages of love through the flurry of your own emotions. So if that message of love is offered in a “foreign language” then it’s potency is diluted or lost all together! So it is imperative to talk in your partner’s love language to send that message of love – most particularly in moments of crisis and stress. Don’t know about your family, but those moments of crisis and stress can crop up pretty regularly in our world!
• When the inevitable conflicts occur, fight fair.
  Disagreement /fighting /conflict are all perfectly normal events in any relationship. The key to the endurance of any long-term relationship is your ability to heal the relationship after the conflict. If you’ve thrown poison, your chances of healing the relationship after the fight has quietened is seriously diminished.

They sound simple of course!

But all tips are. But like I keep saying, “Done is Better Than Perfect!!”

Don’t expect you can be perfect at working at your relationship, but this is one of those situations when persistent trying is the best you can do. (Of course bearing in mind those five tips, “trying” includes asking for feedback, advice, help and forgiveness.)

So Which one could do with some improvement in your relationship?

What are you going to do about it?

How will you do it?  And When?

My intention for this month is to work harder at reflecting on and acknowledging both my positive and negative attributes so I can show up as an excruciatingly honest lover and wife.

What about you?

Photo Source: 56.365 by K Thompson Studios

Now is the perfect time to redecorate with the things we already have and cherish. Mixing things up a little at home gives a new and refreshing perspective on life. Reorganizing and de-cluttering is the greatest decorating trick. It opens up your space and creates serenity. The best part is that it’s free. It requires a bit of your time, and maybe a trip to mom’s house to find something you left behind. Here are a few ways to make the best of what you’ve got.

Rearrange furniture

Photo: House and Home

Rearranging furniture isn’t just about switching up the positions of the sofas and the loveseat, or moving the TV to another wall. Sometimes doing something completely unexpected can be so rewarding. Lately we have seen oversized Wing back chairs sitting at the head of the table, desks making their way into family rooms, bedside tables in living rooms, and end tables beside beds. It makes for a very interesting display of furnishings. Things don’t have to always match, and it’s great when you can highlight a few key pieces that you love. Just remember, to keep it simple. Cramming too many unmatched style in one room can make it confusing.

Show off your books

Photo: Style at Home

Taking the time to dress a bookshelf pays off. Displaying your favorite books, with a few decorative pieces can make a real statement about you. I love the idea of using interesting objects as book ends, stacking books as if you just placed them there an hour ago, and letting a few large books with artistic covers stand alone. There has to be a method to your madness. Take the time to highlight some of the feature books and objects you have, and try to balance the overall appearance. I also like to keep a few spots available on my shelves to stash a bunch of books that are lying around when I am tidying up.

Replace your pics

Photo: Stacey Brandford for Beautiful Homes (scanned)

This is perhaps the most time consuming of redecorating with things you love, but also very rewarding. Creating a wall of photos, prints, art, even old postcards that you sent yourself while on vacation years ago can add character and warmth. What could be better than coming home to a space that surrounds you in your fondest memories? The staircase above is an ambitious project. Creating a configuration on the floor before hand, is the best way to make sure you can create a balanced display.

Display your dishes

Photo: Country Living

This is one that I am longing to do. Of course, I am waiting for the perfect dining hutch to display them on to come along. When I finally get my hutch, I think I am going to go over to my mom’s house and take a few pieces out from her old china set. The one that we ate every Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving dinner on. She packed it away a few years ago because she was tired of it, but I think it’s ready for a comeback.

Fill them with Fruit

Photo: House and Home

This is one of my favorite decorating tips. Buying fresh flowers once a week can get pricey, but since you are buying and consuming fruit regularly, why not make a pretty arrangement with your favorite nourishing treats. Apples, peaches, pears, and plums, lemons and limes can add beautiful punches of colour. Use a glass bowl, a flower vase or even a serving platter and spread it out a little. A Bowl of apples by the front door or in the family room is also a great way to encourage healthy snacking.

Use your Fashion

Photo: Windsor Smith

You know you have too many purses, scarves and shoes anyway. Why not find a place to appreciate them other than on your body. It doesn’t have to be Hermes, it just has to be something you love. A vintage purse on a credenza, a silk scarf on a club chair, even a fancy pair of shoes sitting by a hall bench can add a little character and a lot of charm.

Repurpose your faves

Photo: Poetic Home

This one takes a little creativity. Repurposing furniture is a great way to fill an empty pocket in a room with character and warmth. Head to the basement, the tool shed, the garage, or the attic. Find that old chest, ladder, table, chair, watering can, or anything that peaks your interest. Ladders can be used as shelves, Stools as plant stands, Chairs as end tables, even hanging objects on the wall as works of art.

You may not be able to have everything you want, but there is no reason why you shouldn’t be truly enjoying everything you have.

A Rose for Pauline © 2010 Bo Mackison

The wife of my mother’s only cousin is turning 90 in a few days. (Happy Birthday, Cousin Pauline!) I had a card ready to pop in the mail, but I didn’t want to send off wishes for her big day without adding a personal note.

It would have been easier for me to scribble a few words and sign a big “I love you!” at the bottom of the card, but while I was trying to come up with the right few words, I realized that this birthday event would be a perfect time to do some memoir writing “on the fly.”

That’s mostly how I do my memoir writing anyway. In little projects that add up over time. And so I thought, how easy would it be to pen a special memory to a special person when it is time to send out a special card?  Sure, it adds 20 minutes to the card choosing and address writing routine, but how much more meaningful is a card with a handwritten note, especially if it recounts a memorable time for the recipient.

(Especially, I thought to myself, to a wonderful woman who was soon to be celebrating her 90th birthday.)

So I chose a photo-art card that featured a bright red rose on the cover, because I remembered that even though Pauline only had a very small garden, she always had rose bushes flanking her home’s front door. Then I brainstormed to recall a few memories from the weekends I had spent with Pauline and her husband. In less than a half hour I had come up with a few details I thought Pauline would enjoy reading, and I began.

Here is an excerpt from the letter:

I always loved visiting your home in the big city. There were always special trips to the mall. I still remember how fascinated I was that the largest department store in your mall had a roof shaped like a two-story-tall woman’s hat — complete with a pink bow and tiny windows.

But one weekend when we visited, I was too distracted to enjoy myself.

We visited a few weeks before the end of the school semester and I was struggling with my math assignments and worried about the upcoming comprehensive exam. Math was never much to my liking, and I had taken an aversion to memorizing the multiplication and division tables.

To make matters even worse, I knew you were a highly respected math teacher at the junior high school where you taught, and the math department head, and that you had recently completed the coursework for your masters’ degree in mathematics. I was so impressed that you were so great at math, but also petrified that you would quiz me on my math facts and I would embarrass myself, not knowing the right answers.

But you surprised me. When you asked how I was doing in school, I blurted out, “I love school, all but math. I hate math!”

I remember you looked at me, first with surprise, and then you broke into prolonged laughter. Finally, after you wiped a few tears from your eyes, you called me over to your overstuffed chair, pulled me onto your lap, and whispered, “Why don’t you tell me the part of math you hate the very most?”

Pauline, I remember you gave me a big hug after I told you I was “no good at multiplying.”

You nodded your head, and you said, “There are things that you can do very well and things you can’t do nearly so well. And that is OK. If math is one of those not so good things, maybe I can teach you a few tricks to make it easier.”

You called it “math magic” and you showed me how to maneuver the numbers in my head while I was multiplying.  If I was trying to figure out the answer to 8 times 6, and I didn’t know the 6 tables very well, but I did know the 5 tables, you told me how to multiply 8 times 5 (easy!) and just add another 8 for the right total.

Presto! That math trick, and several others, helped me conquer some of my math fear and I went home with a much better attitude about math facts.

But, Pauline, this is the more important thing you taught me that weekend – that it is OK if you are good at some things, and not so good at others. Thank you for that lesson about all of life, not just the math lesson.

I wrote the letter to Pauline, but I made a copy of the card before I mailed it, and put the little story in my memoir container.

I also checked my calendar for the remainder of 2010 and picked one special event — birthday, anniversary, graduation — each month. Then I put a reminder on my calendar to send a card for these special occasions with a “memoir letter.”

I notice that when I break my life writing into tiny steps and make them serve a special purpose, such as writing a quick story in a card, it is easy for snippets of memories to get captured on paper.

Do you have any special occasions that are coming up in the next month or two? Why not put a note on your calendar to add a story to your card? You’ll document a bit more of your life story, and the recipient will get a special gift, too.

Reading the title of this post, you might be asking yourself, “What’s different about happiness and not unhappiness?” When I came across the idea of being “not unhappy,” I was a bit befuddled myself, but the words just jumped out at me and I instantly wondered, “What is the difference between ‘being happy’ and ‘being not unhappy’? Aren’t they the same?”

The more I thought about it, the more I realized how not the same they really are. Being happy is the state when you contain happiness within yourself, when you choose to be at one with the positivity in your life and in the world. Being not unhappy is the state where you’re not necessarily unhappy, but you’re not necessarily happy either. You’re in limbo. And, oddly enough, I think more people are really referring to this state—this “not unhappiness”—when they use the word “happy” (especially when they’ve been asked the generic “Are you happy?” question). To me, happiness is a proactive thing, something you actively and purposefully choose, not an absence of something (such as not possessing unhappiness).

When I think about happiness, I think of it as something we choose to pick up, like a ripe, delicious apple resting in one of those perfect little rows in the grocery store. We can walk right by the apples, ignoring them, or we can pick one (or many!) up and put them in our carts. Likewise, I think you can choose to pick up unhappiness, like, for example, when you choose to pick up a highly unhealthy box of donuts. Unhappiness is an indulgence, something you don’t need but sometimes may want anyway. When you’re pushing your cart through the aisles, you can pick up the apples — the healthy option — or you can pick up the donuts. It’s completely up to you. And, let’s be honest, we sometimes pick up both, adding happiness and unhappiness to our carts depending on the day or situation or mood we’re in. [Note: I realized after writing this that donuts probably weren't the best symbol for unhappiness, considering I love donuts, but let's just go with it for now. But, really, I do like unhappiness sometimes too (much as I hate to admit that). Like donuts, unhappiness is like a rare, somewhat forbidden treat that I try to stay away from but sometimes find myself indulging in no matter how hard I try to steer my cart down a different aisle...]

When I think of being “not unhappy,” I think of it as just being, sort of in a neutral state, as if you were just you without having picked up those apples or that box of donuts. I guess, in a way, if you say that you are “not unhappy,” you’re walking around with an empty cart. While I suppose it’s better than walking around with a cart filled with donuts, it’s certainly not the ideal situation. Or, at least, I think most of us wouldn’t want to be walking around with empty carts. In fact, when I think about empty carts, when I think of people who, when asked if they are happy, reply with, “Well, I’m not unhappy…,” it actually feels like I’m filling my own cart with donuts, with unhappiness. It actually makes me unhappy to think of all of the people walking around with empty carts, or, rather, settling for empty carts.

But we don’t have to settle for empty carts. We can choose to fill them up, load them to the brim with apples. What I really want you to think about (and what I’m thinking about right now) is: what’s in your cart? And, more importantly, is there anything in your cart? Think about it: Are you “happy”? Or just “not unhappy”? I can say with certainty that I’ve spent a lot of my life being “not unhappy.” In fact, I’ve found myself doing a lot of this lately. I’ll be honest…It’s not terrible. It’s certainly not a terrible way to live, but if you’re living your life as a “not unhappy” person, you are really living a life filled less than you deserve. You deserve a cart filled with apples (and maybe even some donuts too). You deserve to have a full, overflowing cart.

You deserve — we all deserve — to be happy. Happiness is out there, stacked up high in rows just waiting to be taken, but it’s up to you to pick it up and put it in your cart. If you don’t, if you don’t choose happiness, you’ll end up being the person who responds to “Are you happy?” with the depressing phrase, “Well, I’m not unhappy…” And, seriously, is that who you want to be? I know that I want more for myself. I want happiness and I want you to have it too. Lately it hasn’t been the easiest thing for me to pick up. Driving to the grocery store and steering my cart towards the produce seems harder than it should be these days (both literally and figuratively), but I know what I want: I want apples in my cart. I want my cart to be overflowing with apples, with happiness. But I also know that more often than not the apples aren’t going to fall from the sky. I’m going to have to seek ‘em out, pick ‘em up, and put ‘em in my cart. [Another Note: As I'm writing, I'm realizing what an Adam-and-Eve tone this example seems to have with the apple as such an important symbol in the analogy I'm making here. It's an odd to think about it this way, with me encouraging readers to go after the apples, to seek them out... Happiness as sin... hmm... interesting.]

Today I’m going to remind myself of how much control I have over what I put in my own cart. Just like when I’m walking through the grocery store, I can choose what I want to buy. Today I am asking myself, “What do I want to put in my cart?” I realize that donuts might be tempting these days, but today I’m pretty sure I’m going to fill my shopping cart with happiness.

Photo Source: I Heart Donuts! by Cillian Storm (Bonita Suraputra)

About Our Guest Author

This post was written by Dani, a twenty-something striving to live positively in the present moment. Dani’s blog, Positively Present, embraces the idea of “living happily ever after now” by focusing on all things positive. Dani is also the creator and author of Hope Springs Internal, a blog focusing on the positive representations of women in the media. You also find Dani on Twitter @positivepresent.

The concept of this journey began three months ago, with the inspiration to take the first step forward. By the second month, I was on the right track with my ideas, the purpose of my journey being realised.

By the time month three had arrived, the wonder of what I had achieved so far, through the power of my mind, was a delight for me to behold. Maybe, just maybe, this journey would actually take place.

And now, it is; with plans being finalised in month four.

Regardless of where this journey ultimately finds me, one thing I am sure of, the anticipation of what lies ahead is bringing me happiness; so much so that I would like to share my journey with you, my friends.

Would you care to join me….? Before you make your decision, please allow me to describe a little of what you might call my itinerary.

• Every month will find us at a brand new interim point of destination. The roads we travel along may have an occasional rough spot, although I will do my utmost to avoid any pot-holes, to ensure your journey with me remains ultimately calm.
• Together, we will navigate through the twists and bends in the road ahead fearlessly, and with ease. Upon discovering a branch in the road, my intuition will assist me in making the final decision as to which course I will take, and I will encourage you to feel free to allow your own intuition to guide you. That’s the beauty of this journey; the ultimate freedom to make choices and decisions as the journey progresses.
• You must try your hardest not to fret if you feel that a wrong choice has been made. Remember, no decision is final; it is totally acceptable to change your mind along the way. You will find the journey to be far more pleasurable, if you allow yourself the freedom of changing your mind, should you find the road you have chosen to take doesn’t quite reach your expectations.
• Please, rest assured, as you take this journey with me, I am there, supporting you. We will laugh together, sometimes cry together, and there will be times when we will cry laughing together!
• When encouragement is what you need, I’m there for you. If you feel insecure, I will cheer you on. And I’m hoping you will continue to be there for me also, just as you have been during the last three months, preceding this journey.
• Together, we will meet new friends along the way. The vehicle in which we are travelling this journey is capable of holding an infinite number of people, our souls enjoying the freedom to find one another.
• Feel free to join me in a coffee, as we travel along this road together. Perhaps you prefer tea; you choose.
• We will appreciate the scenery along whichever road we choose to take. If we wish to stop a while along the way to admire something of beauty which we have spotted, we will; we have the freedom to “stop and smell the roses” at any point in time.
• My ultimate aim, throughout this journey, is to bring you happiness.

So, what do you think? Will you join me? Hopefully, my itinerary is detailed enough for you to make a choice.

Oh, before I leave, just one thing I haven’t mentioned yet. Whatever road I choose to take as this adventure unfolds, there’s one thing I know for sure; I will be travelling along the road called Freedom.

Now, what do you think…will you join me?

Photo Source: Cycling North Wales

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