Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News Quotes

“The friend I spoke to yesterday about my gut emailed me this morning, He said, “We talk about following our “gut instincts.” In fact, the only other organ in the body with more neurons than the gut is the brain. It knows.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“We have a new interchange near Milwaukee, where you can move from I-94 east to US-45 north. It used to be a godawful left exit, a sharp turn that slowed you down and then dumped you into fast-flying traffic with little time to merge.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“As I drove here today, I was waiting for one particular spot. I can’t pinpoint it exactly, but as I drive over a hill, Wisconsin suddenly changes her personality and erupts from the earth. Our gently rolling hills become flat-top bluffs and there is a long-distance vista of rising curves and I know the river is close by. Just as the land surges skyward, so does my heart. I was tired today as I hit that point, tired with the fatigue still left over from radiation, but I felt that surge.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“But I have another spot, an Oregon for me in Wisconsin. And that’s La Crosse. I think it’s primarily the Mississippi River that calls me here. I am happy when I’m next to it, happier still when I wade in. And so, with a visit to a book club in La Crosse on Wednesday, I decided to make up for my lack of Pacific Ocean by coming early to La Crosse and hovering as near to the river as I can.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“At a certain point in Waukesha, where Northview Road curves one way and a new curve becomes Delafield Street, there is a gigantic cow. She used to stand in front of the Golden Guernsey Dairy, but a few years ago, it became Lifeway, an organic-based dairy.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“Last week, I said to a friend, “I know I survived breast cancer. But I feel like I didn’t. I feel like it killed me.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“It’s not over yet, but the worry isn’t as intense anymore. I know – again – that I’m one of the lucky ones. My happiness today was swirled with a big helping of anger. Quality healthcare should be available to everyone.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“Olivia said that she loves Autism Awareness Month and when everything is lit up blue. I told her that this might be because she has such a good handle on her own autism, that she deals with it with grace and intelligence and compassion.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“I dropped the car off with a pat of encouragement and then walked across the street to Culver’s, a not-so-fast fast food place.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“A little northern Minnesota girl, running alongside the creek (pronounce it crick, please) that ran through my back yard,”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“I have never liked digging in the dirt. I have never liked getting my hands dirty. I like looking at flowers;”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“I personally hate the phrase, “When one door closes, another opens”, or as some say, “When a door closes, a window opens”. It’s usually said with the best of intentions, but it’s trite and sometimes, it makes me angry. I want to say, “Sometimes, when a door closes, it slams. It’s nailed shut. And there’s no other open door anywhere,” or “When a door closes, a window opens so you can throw yourself out of it.”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News

“Coming full circle, when Olivia and I went scrounging in Goodwill today, she found some crazy-looking capris and I found a shirt to go with them. She squealed, “It’s so retro!” The capris look like they’re from the 80s. The 80s are when I was having my first three children. Who are now in their thirties and older than I was when I had them. I’m used to having the decade I was a teenager be retro, but now my young adulthood has gone retro too?”
― Kathie Giorgio, Today's Moment of Happiness Despite the News