life of a georgia Artist

                                                    Photo by Lesly Juarez on Unsplash I have been watching a series about happiness, questioning why some people are happy and others are not. I have battled depression. I have battled demons. I consider myself a happy person. How do you find happiness when life is so complicated and you feel pressured? Life has some good things and some not-so-good things. It is not always filled with joy. Sometimes it is filled with us questioning our own lives. Are you happy? Money does not buy happiness, as a country song says, but then it goes on to say, it can buy a boat, which is the same thing as happiness. This I doubt. Material possessions have never made me happy. Time with my loved ones, my friends, and my family, has made me happy. My life is sometimes a struggle to pay the bills, balancing what I can get done, what I think I can do, and what I can actually accomplish.  Reading books makes me happy. Writing makes me happy. Songs make me happ

Photo by me. Life is filled with colors, but sometimes we are so busy hurrying from one thing to another that we miss the beautiful wonders this world has for us. Blues filled with tints of indigo, gray, and greens.   Sometimes it is browns, whites, and blues. The world is spinning fast and we miss so much because we are on our phones, we are binge-watching another show. We are busy every day and so the world in all its colorfulness changes and we missed it.  Life is so right now, so oh you didn't text me, you didn't see my call, it's all instant gratification. I have been reading about slow living a lot lately. I make time to look at the birds, which seem to be a lot of red robins lately. It is about taking the time to wake up slowly and listen to the bird's songs as they sing to wake us up.  It is about being present in a life that passes us by, so we feel when we are not running in the rat race of life. We do not feel we can get off the hamster wheel. We will miss so