happiness

Our man Thomas Jefferson,
born, like me, on April 13
wrote some good shit.

"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

Which sounds like happiness is
down the road
and we have the right (? duty?) to chase along
after it

and I just discovered this:
pursuit in his day,
was like the pursuit of bird watching
the pursuit of reading
the pursuit of brisk walking

close to the way we use the word
practice
a practice of meditation
which is his mode
could be played out as
the pursuit of meditation

so:
that's a nice way to do
what life really wants us
to do:

make a practice of happiness