Health | Wellbeing | Sustainability
The Pursuit of Happiness
Somehow for me that is molten glass
The Sunday Dispatch ~ August 6, 2023
Do what makes you happy, they say —
“If people did what made them happy, instead of what is expected of them, the world would be a much better place” — a fellow I met some thirty years ago who looked like Santa and had lived in California for thirty years before moving back to Michigan to share this bit of wisdom with me one fine morning.
Every so often I assess whether I am truly happy (read: daily). I find it incredible how often people have tried to dissuade me from doing what makes me happy in life. As if they somehow know better than I the things that bring me joy.
It’s odd really. What do they care?
I think happy people make other people nervous.
So back to my garden of content endeavors, which is what I shall report on this fine Sunday. This is a dispatch, after all, a happy journey of its own.
That’s right, as you read in the subtitle, what makes me happy is molten glass. Recycling glass, you see, requires up to 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit in a furnace, depending on the type of glass and how much cullet (recycled…
