Friday March 27, 2009
Mar. 27/09: Where is Your Happy Place?
Well according to Nick Cobham, one of the core members of New Brunswick buzz band The Olympic Symphonium, it’s his parents’ house on a hilly street in West St. John. The comfy cosy wooden rowhouse is where Nick grew up. He remembers when he was a boy, having to walk to the top of the hill to his Grandma’s place. But what on earth would make a six-year old happy, trudging up an incline as steep as a street in San Francisco? According to Nick it was the big bowl candy that awaited him there.
This week, DNTO’s search for happiness in St. John New Brunswick, takes us all the way to Nick Cobham’s parent’s living room, where The Olympic Symphonium plays us a song!
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Sat. Mar 28- Regarding happiness:
Here in Spruce Grove Alberta, the sign outside a local liquor store this sunny and warm spring morning said, " money can't buy happiness, but, it can buy BEER". How coincidental that you should be talking about happiness today! Enjoy your show as often as I can listen! Thanks for the top notch program week after week.
Thank you for another interesting show. I noticed there was a great deal about people *studying* happiness, yet many of the researchers admitted a suspicion of that same happiness. To find out about happiness, there is only one good source and that is someone who consciously knows how to realize greater levels of connection and happiness on a daily basis. Learning about someone else's happiness is fruitless. It's like reading a restaurant review expecting to taste the food. To know happiness we must be happiness.
I spent most of my life, as Nick has, being suspicious of what I presumed to be the "vapid" minds of people who seemed so easily satisfied. I was raised in a world where achievements (which are necessarily competition-based) were lauded and idleness scorned, but after a major life-changing event, I realized that the happy people weren't seeing less, they were seeing *more.* So far from Nick's theory about them "missing something," we happy people are happy precisely because we aren't missing anything.
I now share the wonderful insights that came from my own experience and I've worked with many people who have endured years of suffering, only for them to come clear of it in an instant--with a moment's realization--that the problem with their lives was that they are so objective-based. Happiness, like the kingdom of heaven, is always waiting in eternity for us to join it. It is not somewhere we go to. It is somewhere we realize we always were.
I wish you all every happiness.
peace. s
PS And tell Nick it doesn't bother truly happy people when he dislikes us. That's like him drinking poison and expecting us to die.
Scott McPherson, March 28, 2009 9:47 PMThis program was brilliant ! …
Is there anyway to hear it again somewhere ? … would it be broadcasted again ?
Alejandro Escobell, March 28, 2009 10:42 PMSook-Yin
My happy place is presently at Marquee Motors garage in Wichita. Neil Young's retorfited electric car is there presently. The joy is best expressed in a new song on the net that can be found by searching "I touched Neil Youngs Car". If you are looking for a shot of joy Sook-yin you should check out "lincvolt.com" and see what Neil Young's doing. It has even inspired some song writing on his part all featured on another website "Neils Garage"
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