Dan's review
Exuberance: The Passion for Life
by Kay Redfield Jamison
I like these succinct reviews on the many happiness books you appear to have read lately.
May I ask if you are writing a book of your own on happiness?
I HAVE been thinking about writing an essay, but the reason I've read all these books is because the theme of my College Writing class is happiness.
I'm finding it interesting, and I think this happiness immersion has been good for me, but not necessarily because I am happier.
My theory right now is that if I lived in Seattle I would be happier, but my reading warns me that my explanations for this would be incomplete and even somewhat illusory.
But if you were happily living in Seattle, why would you spend time trying to fully and realistically explain your happiness when you could be playing basketball at the park instead?
I hope you do write the essay, Dan! And I would be really interested to see how you structured your composition class around this theme (if you wouldn't mind sharing). I'm not teaching composition right now (or in the foreseeable future--though I am teaching "Research & Persuasive Writing" right now) but I guess it goes to show how much of a serious dork I am that I'd still like to see your syllabus. If you share (elizabethames@gmail.com), I will send you a Seattle-related item of your choosing.
Dan's review
Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison
I like these succinct reviews on the many happiness books you appear to have read lately. May I ask if you are writing a book of your own on happiness?
I HAVE been thinking about writing an essay, but the reason I've read all these books is because the theme of my College Writing class is happiness. I'm finding it interesting, and I think this happiness immersion has been good for me, but not necessarily because I am happier.
My theory right now is that if I lived in Seattle I would be happier, but my reading warns me that my explanations for this would be incomplete and even somewhat illusory.
But if you were happily living in Seattle, why would you spend time trying to fully and realistically explain your happiness when you could be playing basketball at the park instead?
I hope you do write the essay, Dan! And I would be really interested to see how you structured your composition class around this theme (if you wouldn't mind sharing). I'm not teaching composition right now (or in the foreseeable future--though I am teaching "Research & Persuasive Writing" right now) but I guess it goes to show how much of a serious dork I am that I'd still like to see your syllabus. If you share (elizabethames@gmail.com), I will send you a Seattle-related item of your choosing.