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Riches

Financial wealth is one way to measure riches.     But checking that box doesn’t guarantee a person is fulfilled.    There's a cap on how much money will improve your long-term happiness.   Once basic needs are met , with enough money to make ends meet, wealth's relationship to happiness often flattens.   Intangible riches are more commensurate with happiness.  Redirecting your priorities, having an appetite and capacity to enjoy life’s resources and treasures, a dopting a lens of gratitude —provides the true riches in one’s life. To be open to human interaction is to be vulnerable.  Every day you take the chance that heartbreak or tragedy can hit unexpectedly.  But they say the depth that we experience love is in equal measure to the depth of heartache and pain we can endure.  And the rewards—the richness of life, the emotional fulfillment, and pure enjoyment of family, children and friendships — are immeasurable and are ...

A Wedding

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Toward the end of last year, I agreed to host a wedding at my house this summer.  Jaime and Brian introduced me to a couple of their friends who I've gotten to know and like.  They got engaged and were looking for an outdoor venue to get married.  I'm flattered that they want to have it here, and I decided to make use of "the Folly" and all that I've put into it.  I do love to entertain, and I think it will be fun.