So I'm very much past my six week trial of being "glad", aka my own personal Pollyanna project. To catch you all up I challenege myself over a six week period to the task of noting things as part of an ordinary day in my life that I was glad about, that made my heart sing or my brain stop for just a moment or so - see the original post here. Then I blogged them - see the posts under the Pollyana Project.
All the budding researchers among you are awaiting my chapter on analysis and results I know, so here it is plain and simple. What makes me glad? (Or should I phrase that what are the moments of bliss in amongst the daily grind? Sorry Pollyana doesn't live here any more!) Well....
- rainboots...and rain, and weather in general, storms, sunshine, the changing of the seasons and everything in between including spending time on the high seas!
- professional people I admire, aka my professional heroes - getting to meet and work with them is an added bonus!
- pets - other peoples, ones on the street, native wildlife. If I can pat it, I like it.
- friends - that mostly love to eat (and yes have the odd tipple), and then there are their friends - the joy of meeting people that know your friends (social networks! gah!) are always a new possibility
- time to myself - and learning to make that time
- Phwoar and Swoon - men worthy of cravats and breeches (and cycling lyrca).
- random acts of song/music - it is something about voices raised together (BYO daggy 80's hits) or music that floats into the street (BYO violinist and soprano)
- armchair sport spectatorship - I've yelled and booed at the World Cup and the wondrous Le tour de France, perhaps lawns bowls spectatorship next?
- art in everyday life - off to galleries and performances, being reminded of art works I love...
- sleep - lots of it, preferably a nice daily dose.
- giggling - to take a leaf out of Elizabeth Bennet's book 'Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can' closely followed by instigating said giggling
- achieving something - and having it immortalised on a plaque or planting the seeds of bigger achievements
So basically I'm glad if I get to sleep, eat, drink and giggle (preferably with other people), pat animals, hang out in the weather and watch other people play sport, make art and performance, and/or wear cravats. That is all.
