Happiness All Along

It took most of the day before the sun broke through the rain clouds. The only one who seem to enjoy it was my daughters Siamese cat Keo. He had gotten into a bag of catnip on my desk and had catnip all over my papers and keyboard. At least he tired himself out and is no longer jumping on my desk.

Sometimes life appears to have options, today there seem to be none in sight. If I didn't know better I would have thought it was a rainy day Monday as I tried to sleep it away. 

There was a conversation that came to mind. My daughter was having one of her drama moments... breaking young men's hearts. One of the young men messaged me and said I would have given her everything. She said " he couldn't give me happiness" Bad move, she is like her mother, leading with her heart. Though it is true the apple sometimes doesn't fall far from the tree. She is much wiser than I was at her age. I saw true happiness in her eyes, the sparkles, she smiled through them and I can't say I had seen that look in her before. You can't put a price tag on happiness and though I believe that it is an emotion that lays dormant, some people do have the ability to trigger the emotion in others. 

I failed to see the sunshine,

as I thought the rain had won, 

I woke up in sadness not 

realizing I had happiness all along.

It was there when the morning birds 

chirped a sweet love song and 

again in the hills where the trillium

are blooming so ever strong. 

I didn't realize I held it in my heart, 

the magic of happiness and the

the warmth we shared from

the very start. 

I failed to see the sunshine, 

as I thought the rain had won, 

I woke up in sadness not 

realizing I had happiness all along.