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Happynicity


My Wish For The New Year 2024
In this new year, I hope you come to see how utterly amazing you are. That despite the challenges the past year brought, you gritted your...
happynicity
Jan 1, 20241 min read


Bedtime Story
The hour hand on the clock crawls towards twelve. Shadow pools in spaces once occupied by sunlight. A hush descends in the air, the...
happynicity
Oct 25, 20231 min read


Crossings
I got off the bus one stop early a few weeks back, thinking I’d stretch my legs and get some steps in. As I approached a slip road, I...
happynicity
Oct 20, 20231 min read


Stay
A while back I wrote a post about grief. It was partly an update on why I had taken a social media hiatus, partly an outlet for me to...
happynicity
Sep 29, 20231 min read


Before I Forget
My dad has dementia. He finds it challenging to perform some spatial functions and complex tasks. Largely, though, it’s him being...
happynicity
Sep 13, 20231 min read


Silver Linings
I had an unexpected passing in my family recently, one that hit me hard, one which I’m still processing. It’s not that I’ve never lost...
happynicity
May 4, 20231 min read


The Resident Child
Once, when I was about nine, it was raining when my aunt and I alighted from the bus. Home was quite a distance away and neither of us...
happynicity
Jan 25, 20231 min read


My Wish For The New Year 2023
As the new year unfolds and unexpected paths open up, may you embrace this strange, new world bravely. If the path is rocky, may there be...
happynicity
Dec 31, 20221 min read


Pouring Happiness
There’s this story leadership keynote speaker Ryan Estis shares in his talks. He was at the airport one Christmas Eve when he decided to...
happynicity
Dec 28, 20221 min read


Perspectives
I took this photograph a while back. It sat languishing in a folder somewhere, along with the thousands of other photographs that I had...
happynicity
Dec 21, 20221 min read


Urban Dawn
As the sky slowly sheds its midnight cloak and slips into a rose‑coloured veil, it is time for you to rouse from your slumber. All...
happynicity
Dec 14, 20221 min read


Work In Progress
This is a shot I have wanted to capture for a while. Or rather it is an approximation of the idea I have in mind. For my ambition is to...
happynicity
Dec 7, 20221 min read


Shades Of Quiet
There are different kinds of quiet that I relish. There is the still kind of quiet in the deep of the night when your part of the world...
happynicity
Nov 23, 20221 min read


Nothing Really Matters
It was a friend who first clued me in on the importance of doing nothing. I was telling her how guilty I felt for not accomplishing...
happynicity
Aug 21, 20221 min read


Something To Talk About
Great conversations are like food for the soul. It nourishes and energises you and prompts you to grow. The best conversations I have are...
happynicity
Aug 20, 20221 min read


In The Beginning
Beginnings evoke mixed feelings in me. On the one hand, it is always scary to step off the well-trodden path and into the unknown. On the...
happynicity
Aug 17, 20221 min read
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