The small happinesses post

[white_hart]

This weekend has been hard. I've spent far too much time tweeting and retweeting and signing and emailing and now I'm suffering from news overload again. And it's Sunday evening, and I'm still fighting off a cold, and I need to unwind so I can get a decent night's sleep before I go and tackle another week at work.

We're in this for the long haul, and we need to look after ourselves. And sometimes that means looking away from the big awful things and trying to find the joy in small things. On which note, and without trying to deny that the awfulness is still going on, I'm declaring this a Good Things Post. Tell me something that cheers you up, even a little bit. Tell another commenter something nice about themself. You could even tell me something nice about myself, if you wanted. Or, if you ask, I'll tell you something nice about you, or just offer a virtual hug.

I don't know if it'll work, but it seems worth a try.

Comments

[antisoppist]

Not exactly taking our minds off things, but I want someone to make a film about the sisters who smuggled Jewish people's valuables out of Nazi Germany and Austria while going to operas, their tickets funded by writing Mills & Boon novels.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-38732779

[white_hart]

Oh, how wonderful! That is a lovely story, and I think it really does help to read about how ordinary people can make a difference.

[perennialanna]

It is a fabulous story. Lord Peter would have approved of them.

[ingreatwaters]

Mary Burchell!

She was one of my gramma's favourite authors, and wrote some books which are not quite what I usually think of as Mills and Boon - with details of an operatic world, not just romance in front of painted scenery.