Q: What Makes You Happy?

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A:

Well, I suppose my happiness comes from the mundane, everyday, simple, extreme, rare, and perfect moments. Like - if I read something that was meant to be serious and can be made readily ridiculous. Better still is the intentionally ridiculous that can be made understood seriously. All of that makes me smile (or more honestly, smirk). 

      It's the Magic of the Ordinary Person. 
      Profundity found in the silly.
      Honesty found in lies (but not the reverse). 

Funnily enough, thinking of them makes me smile, but it is overwhelmingly better to experience them. And you can! Everyday!

     Smile at frowns - it's easy & fun.
     See truth in lies - it's difficult & worth it.
     Find whimsy in everything you do and see - it's next to godliness.

The best, most smilest thing I know, however...

CREATE.

Fill out God's creation with your own, it makes us all  =D  (that's a smile I made).





Hey. My name is Luke Stoltzfoos. I am a ex-church leader, an English-teacher-in-training, a millennial, a dad, a puzzler, and an all-around stranger. If you lurk about here, you'll see creative writing like short stories, poems, or something more nerdy like reviewing a book, movie, etc. It won't be on a consistent schedule, but when it comes I hope you like it. If you do, feel free to subscribe via email so you don't miss it whenever I get the time to write.

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