I'll take this opportunity to invite members to let us know what
you've been up to, in terms of promoting, studying or enhancing your
own happiness.

My own happiness promotion activities are beginning to coalesce.
Examples can be found at
http://www.thehappinessfoundation.blogsopot.com and at
http://www.happinessgym.com

The Happiness Gym website is merely a placeholder for what will be
my permanent site hosted at Zaadz.

I strongly urge anyone who might be looking for a web services
provider for their own business to check out http://www.Zaadz.com.
Ask to be notified of their debut. If you do, please use my
referral code, which is alcannistraro.

Zaadz will be providing a complete list of services for one flat
annual rate.

I'm in touch with the founders/leaders of this group, and they are
good people, and this will be a good company to be associated with.

I believe the web serbvices will sell themselves once examples
become available.

In terms of my own happiness, I know that I've never been happier or
more at peace. This was brought home to me over the past week. A
week ago yesterday, my dentist discovered a suspicious-looking
growth in my mouth. Later that day, my family physician confirmed
my fear that it could be something very serious. I was not able to
get to a specialist until Tuesday. Naturally, I researched the
possibilities. I knew that it could be malignant, and that the
treatment options could be disfiguring and might rob me of my
ablility to speak. I knew it could have meant a death sentence.
But, by Sunday afternoon, I was able to put it all into perspective
and I was at peace with whatever was coming my way. I figured that
there was a slightly better than even chance that the growth was
benign. I learned Tuedsay that was.

So many good things happened to me as a result of this episode. It
helped me grow, it brought me and my wife closer, it gave me an
enhanced appreciation for everything, and it prepared me to better
deal with future repititions of such scares.

Plus, the specialist diagnosed the reason for my years-long
annoyingly chronic cough, and he prescribed an effective remedy!

By comparison, about 15 years ago I learned that I had a chronic but
not life threatening disease. That sent me into a serious period of
pessimism and varying degrees of depression.

So that's how I know for sure that I'm happier and more at peace
than I've ever been before.

Another reason is my comfort level in telling these stories --
somehting that i would not have been able to as my former self.