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I asked my good friend Margaret to read out her original answer to the question "What Makes You Happy?" 🎶
Over the years I've been able to put this two her twice more and both times her answer has changed subtly 💛
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What makes you happy? ⏪
“It makes me happy when my friends encourage me to do weird stuff! We live by the motto; ‘Be Good Craic', and it leads to all sorts of stupid things that will make us laugh.
I also love books” 💛
Thank you for all the amazing feedback and DM's about the first few episodes back of the podcast 🎧
If you listened right to the end of last week's episode you'll know some of the exciting names lined up for interviews 🎙️
And if you haven't get on it! New episodes coming very soon - but for now we're going to reshare some of our favourite answers to "What Makes You Happy?" So keep an eye out over the next few days 💛
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Listen to the full interview at the following links >> https://linktr.ee/happinessscrapbook
"Humans. Human connection. I think that every person that comes into your world is there to teach you a lesson and people that like p**s you off are there to teach you a lesson that you still need to work on. People make life fun and enjoyable. Without other people what would life be about? Nothing.
It's about realising that we're all in this together and if I'm able to help someone else become happy? That makes me happy.
One other thing is nature. I just love being outside in nature. I think all our answers lie there, honestly. Every day is a new start, like light and dark, the moon comes out then the sun.
And also life is like the seasons I fully believe. So everyone goes through spring - so new thoughts arise and grow into your life and new beliefs, new patterns, new habits that are healthy and summer comes and everything's hunky dory.
Autumn, we let go in the leaves whatever's not serving us. We surrender it. We don't need it any more. Winter - we can feel cold, alone and isolated and everything can seem... just really cold and down in the dumps. And then just knowing that springs coming around the corner and knowing that after winter comes growth. New opportunity.
Just remembering that a continuous life cycle. It's never going to stop." 💛
Here if this is still what makes Maire happy in the latest podcast episode: links here - https://linktr.ee/happinessscrapbook 💛
The theme of this year's Mental Health Awareness Week is Nature 🌿
I read recently about one of the first studies into the benefits of nature on the human mind. In America in the 1960's it was found that patients with a view of nature recovered quicker than their counterparts who didn't 🍂
Nature isn't a luxury but access to it for many people can be. Over lockdown many of us, who have been able to, have been going for more walks and discovering new and exciting gems across this island. My hope is to continue this throughout the year as the benefits on my health are far more than physical 🍃
Click here >> https://spoti.fi/2RC4ly1 to see if lockdown has made Margaret change her answer to: "What Makes You Happy?"
"I think music has the greatest power to evoke emotions. With it's vast range - from classical to jazz to pop - it can make you want to sing. It can transport you to another world, bring you back to an exact moment in time. And you can listen on your own, enjoy the craic of a sing song, the buzz of a concert or just carry a lovely tune around in your head that makes you smile"
Think we could all benefit from 'being more Lewis'
Lewis says he was inspired to change the way he emails by the campaign which was run for several years by Time To Change, unfortunately the mental health campaign was recently shutdown after a successful 15 years.
Are you concious of this? Have you noticed any of your colleagues taking that extra step for you? 💛
"I love getting home at night finishing off my homework or whatever, and then sitting down with my family around the dinner table. I think when you get up in the morning you barely see each other. Nobody sits around for breakfast - certainly not in my house and then you're rushing off to school or to work.
Lunch is obviously wherever you are and then you get home and dinner I think is that one time where you sit down with your family, you can actually speak with each other and I think I'm very lucky to have that I know not everyone does."
To hear if after a year of lockdown Lewis still feels the same check out a brand new episode of podcast tomorrow! 💛
"What makes me happy?
Of course my family, friends and boyfriend make me super happy. But other than that so many things!
I love being in nature - I grew up & live beside the Gortin Glens so nature has always been part of my life. Whether it’s a beach, forest or mountain, I’ll be happy there. The scenery around my home and in Ireland amazes me everyday and it only gets better in the summer. Taking pictures makes me happy as I love capturing those special views and moments. 📸
I’m super passionate about the environment so seeing people trying to make a change makes me so happy and inspires me always. 🌿
Also travelling honestly feeds my soul, exploring new places, cultures characters and foods has always made me happy. 🌎
I’m really passionate about rights & it inspires me when I see people openly express themselves. Whether it be around their sexuality, race, gender or faith, I love to see people be unapologetically themselves. 🏳️🌈
I also love reading psychology books, giving presents, listening to my favourite music, dogs, and Q***r Eye! 🤩"
The easiest answer for why is scrapbook is simply... we're big fans of scrapbooking! 📔
Everything holds a memory be it photos, tickets, stubs, programmes, booklets, letters, wristbands, tags, maps, notes, cards, newspaper clippings - whatever was special about a certain time or event 🕰
Being able to keep them somewhere to look back on is just magical. The nostalgia really can transport you to another world 💛
We've been footering about ourselves and catching up with some old friends...
New episode drops this day next week (it's gonna be May??? - JT vibes) 📅
AKA Star Wars Day - we can't wait to share it with you 💛
First person I asked the question "What Makes You Happy?" to was my granda 💛
You'll have seen his answer in my previous post but there's nothing that brings it more to life than hearing it from the horse's mouth 🐴
An absolute hero of mine 💛
“Footering about with my old tools. Searching around for old tools to pick up. Collecting them, for me, is like going back in time. It takes a lot of stress away and I feel quite content with my projects. I come out here and if the radio is going I’ll be singing along with it in my own way.
"My father used to say, 'Be nice to old people cause if you live you’ll soon be one'. Time flies. It’s only a blink really. It makes me happy to look back.”
A huge part of scrapbooking is the photos we take and as someone who loves taking photos (but definitely is far from the best at it) I'm always looking to improve what I can do 😊
Currently I use my Canon EOS 500D with a 50mm f/ 1.8 lens (it's really difficult to not get a half decent photo on this), Nikon d5000 with a DX 35mm f 1.8 lens (chefs kiss for video work even 4 years later) and just my phone when I'm out and about📱
The Huawei p30 Pro was said to have the best camera lenses about with their Leica partnership. I'm not 100% sure about that but playing about with different apps seems to work wonders 📸
So all this is a request for any advice, tips or tricks to improve! Most of the stuff I've been taking recently has been nature and animals (swipe for more). I haven't been as proactive in stoping people to ask what makes them happy and get a quick snap - but now I've committed to doing a bit more all help would be appreciated! 📷
My Granny claims that if she wasn't the first person in Armagh to have a camera, she was certainly the first person in Armagh to have two cameras 📷📷
Around 1950, when she was 12 years old my Grandmother entered a competition in the Irish News to win a camera (I couldn't find this unfortunately - so the cutting is of a similar competition, around the same time in the Irish Times - and who knows through the passing of the story - it could very well be the same one!)
She was pleased to receive word that she had won the camera, but had to contact the paper when the camera didn't arrive. When a neighbour offered to collect the camera at the border - lo and behold there were two cameras awaiting collection
My granny says people came from far and wide to see the foreign contraption and have their photo taken. She still has lots of these photos and we are so lucky to be able to look at them (including this one of her in the garden she still looks on fondly).
P.S. If you've ever thought about downloading the Colorize app that I, for one, kept seeing on TikTok - swipe right cause this is your sign - neither me nor my grandmother can get over the results!
I've always had a passion for photography. So much of the Scrapbook is made up of photos of people I've met along the way and it's amazing to have this connection to the past, and fondness for capturing memories 📸📸
The strange quirks of fate with my Great, Great Grandfather's scrapbook didn't stop there. On the very first page, the very first thing stuck in is a poem entitled 'Light into Darkness'
I've since tried to find more information about the poet or the poem itself, to no avail. It reads:
Adrift on your lotus-bound ocean,
Asleep in your flower-decked ship,
Unheeding the whirlpool's commotion,
Unseeing your life's steady slip;
With ever a thought of earth's sorrow,
Never a glance at its woes,
Never a thought of to-morrow,
Never the cypress bur rose ;
No ear for the wail of the weary,
The cry of the starving for bread,
No light for homes that are dreary,
No touch with the hearts that have bled.
But I know that your heart will awaken,
Your life will be noble and true,
When the mists of your madness are taken
This world will be brighter for you.
And I wait in these hours of sadness
For those hours of coming light
When I'll sing my paean of gladness
After this bitter night
Lona. Ramelton, March 25th
My Great, Great Grandfather's scrapbook is filled with newspaper cuttings, poems, portraits of Christopher Columbus and Shakespeare, and (of greatest interest to my Grandfather) a list of all of his children, with their dates of birth, where they were christened and who the Godparents and the Priests were.
John Doherty was a baker from Convoy, Donegal. He had 11 children. After listing the details on each, (including that of my Great Grandfather Thomas Doherty) he wrote of a wish from himself and his wife Rebecca that God would guard over each of them.
John Doherty's portrait hangs in my Grandad Tom's home. I had never paid it any attention before. I will now.
So... why a scrapbook part one of... I have planned ahead but not that far so this could be a journey! 🗺
I was calling down to visit my Grandad a few years ago to get some snaps of his garden (see the pic on the right and at the bottom - the colours are 😍)
I was explaining the concept of the scrapbook to him and how I'd been travelling around asking people "What Makes You Happy?". He left me in the kitchen and brought me back an old, tattered looking book, and started rebinding the spine himself with some grey masking tape 📕
"This is my Grandfather's scrapbook." My own Great, Great Grandfather started a scrapbook almost 140 years ago - and nobody thought to tell me!
Wishing everyone a very happy Easter 💛🐰🐣
One of the most frequently asked questions on this lil project is why a scrapbook?
The answer, somehow, stretches all the way back to the 1800's - we'll be sharing the whole story very soon 🤫
The Happiness Scrapbook is back...
So here's a refresher on our mission statement: finding out what makes people happy
We've had 100's of answers from right across the world. After a tough year we finally have a little bit of hope back... and from today the evenings are getting that little bit brighter! So we have more and more to be happy about.
If you've an interesting answer to the scrapbook's paramount question - feel free to leave a comment below 👇
The Happiness Scrapbook will reopen 28th March and we can't wait to share all the exciting things we have planned!
This International Day of Happiness it's time for some good news! We're back! (Check the next post for more!💛)
This year's theme is Keep Calm. Stay Wise. Be Kind.
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