Not Just About A Book Club Reads "This is Happiness"

 

We had a very nice book club meeting at a local bakery called "Grounds". 

 

 

They have a conference room available if you buy food. The book we read was "This is Happiness" by Nial Williams. The book focuses on a small Irish Village during the late 1950's. The story speaks to the vital role friendship and a tight knit community can play in strengthening the human spirit. One of the questions to ponder is "Where do you find community in your life?" As always discussion was thoughtful and joyful. Besides the book discussion and lunch from the bakery we celebrated our Valentines/ Galentines day together.

 A repetitive thought flowed through my mind:

 "This is Happiness."

 

 

 

Here is a quote from the book: “Now, as far as I was concerned, there are two ways of living, and because we're on a ball in space these were more or less exactly poles apart. The first, accept the world as it is. The world is concrete and considerable, with beauties and flaws both, and both immense, profound and perplexing, and if you can take it as it is and for what it is you'll all but guarantee an easier path, because it's a given that acceptance is one of the keys to any kind of contentment. The second, that acceptance is surrender, that there's a place for it, but that place is somewhere just before your last breath where you say "All right then, I have tried" and accept that you have lived and loved as best you could, have pushed against every wall, stood up after every disappointment, and until that last moment, you shouldn't accept anything, you should make things better.”