Like you, I've spent a lifetime looking for happiness. I've diligently explored the nooks and crannies of happiness's hiding places for over seventy years. I've done a lot, experienced a lot, and learned a lot about how to be happy. I've been a son, sibling, spouse, parent, and grandparent. I've been a student, manual laborer, salesman, legal secretary, court reporter, and air traffic controller. I've won National Science Foundation grants and worked in microbiology labs. I've been a firefighter, mountain man, survivalist, and master naturalist, as well as a yoga instructor. I've lived in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains, faced bears, moose, elk, and cougars, and survived for months at a time by catching and eating rattlesnakes. I've jumped out of airplanes and off cliffs and waterfalls. I've flown military combat aircraft and been trusted routinely with the lives of tens of thousands of people, as well as the safety of Air Force One. I've written books, won poetry contests, published a magazine about birds, sung in choirs, acted on stage, created stained glass windows, sculpted clay creations, and designed popup cards. I've lived on the East Coast, West Coast, the South, Midwest, Pacific Northwest, Southwest, California and Hawaii. I've lived on coastlines, mountains, deserts, farm country, and a Pacific island in the middle of a vast ocean. Here is what I have learned about happiness.
