A Trip to Happiness

Travel is one of the ten ways to happiness.  Mr Smile has been doing quite a bit of this over the Summer and that is why he hasn't found time to write his blog (he apologises for this).

Just planning a trip, however small, can lift your spirits even if you don't end up going.

The journey can be as much fun as reaching the destination.  Take time to look out of the window on the way, even if it is dark.

The Journeyman

The crackle on the gravel

The rolling of the stone

Footprints on the shifting sand

Where the journeyman must roam.

Wishes on the water

Mind up in the mountains

The journeyman his only need

To taste the quenching fountain

Tramps across the countryside

To travel the unknown

He trusts the earth beneath his feet

The journeyman is home

To where his heart is

He who knows much more

Whose eyes are always fixed upon

The ever open door.

And from Goodreads:

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net