"A chaque fois qu'Angela pensait a lui ses yeux changeaient de couleur"

Submitted by: Denis Charmot, http://denis.charmot.free.fr

How To Mail Your Happy Thoughts?

Mail in your Happy Thought on one side of a homemade postcard (4" x 6"). Each postcard showcasing one happy thought may be made by any technic. You may use separate postcards if you want to share two or more happy thoughts.

Be brief, creative, and unique. Inspire.

You may send anonymously or you may also share your stories behind these happy thoughts.

Address:
Happy Thoughts
H. Malinis
108 BSA Mansion Benavidez Street,
Legaspi Village,Makati City 1229, PHILIPPINES

The inspiration behind the project:

We all go through phases in life when we feel down, sad and uninspired, wouldn't it be nice if we could browse a collection of creative artworks showcasing happy thoughts of people the world over? ...how an ice cream could make up one person's day, the thought of a loved one, childhood memories of lakes and swings...all of these remind us of the good things in life. It is hoped that this collection of happy thoughts will inspire people, and reach out to them, wherever they may be, whenever they need uplifting and inspiration.

Submissions

I have already received many submissions from the mail-art community and would upload some on the next days.

Among those that have contributed had the following happy thoughts in mind:

1. "Everyday is a happy thought"
2. " A chaque fois qu'Angela pensait a lui, ses yeux changeaient de couleur." (Everytime that Angela thought [to] of him, her eyes were changing [of] color)
3. "Chocolates my future bf will give me"
4. "Integrity"
5. "My family that fills up the missing pieces of me"


I am planning to extend my mail-art project deadline and would post the same on www.mail-art.de.

It is a great joy to read all these happy thoughts and it is my hope that these happy thoughts would inspire other people too.

Some submissions were more extensive, thus I would scan them in the future time for viewing.

Happy Thoughts

Here's an excerpt from Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking that you might find illustrative of HAPPY THOUGHTS:

A group of boys and girls were asked to list the things that made them the happiest. Their answers were rather touching.

Here is the boys' list:

"A swallow flying; looking into deep, clear water; water being cut at the bow of a boat; a fast train rushing; a builder's crane lifting something heavy; my dog's eyes."

And here is what the girls said made them happy:

"Street lights on the river; red roofs in the trees; smoke rising
from a chimney; red velvet; the moon in the clouds."

There is something in the beautiful essence of the universe that is expressed, though only half-articulated, by these things. To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity.

Source:
Peale, Norman Vincent
The Power of Positive Thinking, Prentice-Hall, 1978.

This has been the inspiration for the mail-art project "Happy Thoughts" - a collection of works exhibiting the creativity of people and showcasing the thoughts that make people happy.