April 19th 2020

I hope this little email will uplift and encourage you to see the good things all around you. In this email:

• Thought for the day: To look at the world like a child again
• Picture of the day: Whale fountain
• Daily Funny: Goblin!
• Daily Happiness: Queen Bumble Bee
• Daily Quote from Jonathan Livingston Seagull

To look at the world like a child again

I often look at children, and how excited they are of little things. A bug is a wonder, a puddle is a source of joy (because of course you have to jump in it), a dog is the best thing in the world. Playing takes the child into another imaginary world without limitations. And every day is an adventure. A child's heart is full on unconditional feelings.

To see the world though a child's eyes again! To be able to stop completely into a moment, to see its possibilities, its beauty, its excitement! Now there's a goal worth pursuing.

I don't recall anymore where I head this story, but it still makes me laugh. 

A little child was on a bus with her mother, when a young man stepped into the bus. He was a punk-rocker - his hair was sticking in spikes into every direction, he had made up his eyes with black mascara, had a safety pin through his cheek, a long black coat with chains hanging, and heavy boots.

The little girl looked at him in awe and then whispered to her mother in a loud voice everyone could hear:

"Look Mummy! A goblin!"

Everyone started laughing. Not exactly the effect the young man was looking for...  :D

Queen Bumble Bee

I love bees. Always have. I've been rescuing them from water, given them sugar water when they are exhausted, helped them get outside from a house. And bumblebees especially are adorable.

Here is a picture of the first bumblebee of the year - these ladies appear in our balcony every spring. I don't know where they come from, but I do know these very first ones are queens that go on building their colony. She made me smile despite the misery of the corona epidemic at the moment. She was a sign that summer is coming, which sure is another thing to make me happy up here in the nirth

So if you see a bumblebee early in the spring, do not kill it. (Or any other time either!) If you do, you are killing a whole colony. 

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