What thoughts are guaranteed triggers of joyful feelings for you?

Oddly enough, I can thank Loli for this.
Guardians Of The Galaxy, one and two.
“I like to collect these and line em up on my console.”
Baby Groot
Drax’s laugh.
“You made me kick grass!”
“I’m Mary Poppins, Ya’ll”

I have a tough time finding cheerful moments these days, but those two movies are my reliable go to.

Thanks, loli. :-)

Thinking about my younger son’s love for his toddler daughter.

This may sound odd. But it makes me laugh, no matter how bad I feel. I can’t provide a link, but a good screaming goat (for no reason) will put me on the floor.

I hope to have a screaming goat as a pet, one day.

^^That goat sound pierces the skull stimulating joy neurons in the brain. : )

Eating out. Getting laid was a big one back when I was younger…

Thinking of my cats, both past and present. Thinking of mountain biking and the exhilaration it brings. Remembering various adventures with friends—certain moments still make me laugh years after they happened.

Seing Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone with my grandfather when I was 10. He had been estranged from my dad for a few years, so we never really got to know him very well when I was little. They reconciled in the middle of 2001 when he heard that he was sick, so we all went to see Harry Potter together and out to eat at his favorite restaraunt. My grandfather loved HP and he said it reminded him of seeing Mary Poppins when he was a kid. He died in 2002.

Well, I woke up this morning whistling because we’re going camping over Thanksgiving week, just down the street from the grandkids. I was thinking about the things we could do. I guess…the grandkids, period.

Thinking about camping in the campground that my family has gone to since I was a kid, sitting around the campfire, and imaging the scents of the wood fire, and coffee, and pancakes, and the sound of oak and pine needles crackling beneath my feat, and the whoosh of the breeze through the pine trees, and the sound of wood peckers conk-conking the trees, and the sound of the water spigots squeaking and splashing water onto the rocks, and the sounds of other campers talking and echoing through the woods, and the sound of the zipper on the tent, and the scent of the fabric from the tent, and the feeling of contentedness and serenity that I feel in that place.