My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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At Last. I’m Holding a Copy of My Book In My Hands.

Yesterday, I got a copy of the actual finished book of Happier at Home.

It’s the strangest feeling…it feels momentous, but I’m not sure I would describe my emotions as exactly “happy.”  For one thing, I’m scared to look inside the pages  for fear that the first thing I’ll see is a typo. I know this isn’t necessarily the  most helpful “happiness” minded attitude, but nevertheless, that’s how I feel.

Okay, I did just look, to check out the last page. I have to say,  I love the ending to this book.

And I just flipped through to look at the photographs (I took them myself, of my own home). I love adding pictures to a book. All my books have had photos, in fact, except for The Happiness Project–not sure why I didn’t include them there.

Enough for now. I don’t want to look inside anymore, but seeing it on the edge of my desk makes me happy. For the better, for the worse, it’s truly finished.