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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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For the last ten or so years, we’ve been tied to the school calendar, needing to tuck travel either into the time between Christmas and New Year or wait until summer. When the kids were in early elementary school, we pulled them out of school for trips, but they stopped wanting to do that because catching up was so difficult on the other end.

This was our first year released from the school schedule. We have a long winter and spring break, and it was much better than summer. No crowds. No lines. The weather was fine — we could sit outside drinking hot chocolate.

Winter travel may be risky with cold temperatures or snow, but summer travel can also be risky with extreme heat or closures. (We’ve seen temperatures so high that the road melted.) We walked straight into places we’ve stood in long lines for in the past. We’re now Team Winter/Spring Travel, all the way.

What about you?

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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The sub-head on this article — “My clinical work has shown me that happiness is a ghost that’s not worth pursuing – there are far wiser goals in life” — begs the question: What is worth pursuing? The article argues for “reasonable contentment,” which is sort of happiness lite. As in a balance of happiness with unhappiness with neutral moments in between. You don’t need to really pursue reasonable contentment in the same way you need to pursue happiness (or make yourself happy). Reasonable contentment is accepting what is.

I don’t know if happiness is not worth pursuing at all. If that were the case, we wouldn’t have an impetus to travel, view art, eat good food, engage in crafts, or engage in thousands of other actions that are all about pursuing happiness. We don’t shell out money for a restaurant meal we think will make us reasonably content. We can get that from a bowl of cereal at home. Why spend hours in a car, driving to visit someone, when you can achieve reasonable contentment with a FaceTime call?

What do you think of the argument?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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If you have trouble with meditation but made it one of your resolutions for this year, you may have more success with a meditation anchor such as mindful eating. The idea is that instead of clearing your mind, you tune all of your thoughts to a single action: Eating a bite of food.

I thought this was a lovely piece on appreciation, and while I don’t think I’ll change my lunch-at-my-desk habit, I do like the idea of setting aside a night once a week to make the table special and feel like a guest in your own home.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

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Yes, I clicked on some to see what places they recommended, but travel hot lists feel ridiculous. How can you recommend an entire country? Or city? It’s not a book where everyone is delivered the same story between covers. Or even a restaurant with a finite number of dishes on the menu. Or a hotel where the location and amenities remain the same, regardless of the room. In all of those situations, your mileage may vary for many reasons. But an entire city? How can two people have similar experiences in the same place unless they follow the same itinerary?

I felt vindicated by the randomness of the lists.

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After closing the book on a year where it felt like so many things were going wrong, I want to start this year by stating what has gone right so far. In my world: We all remembered to say “rabbit rabbit” at midnight so they were the first thing said in the new month of the new year.

How about for you? What has gone right so far?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.