This weekend I read a wonderful article by the even more wonderful Dolly Alderton, one of my favourite journalists and, to be honest, girl
crushes. I love everything she writes – I remember reading a quote by Joss
Whedon once in which he said that he wishes he could ‘eat someone’s brain and steal
their ideas’ – and that’s kind of how I feel about her, except to 'ideas' you could also add 'insane legs'.
But her latest piece was one of my favourites - this beautiful list of all her delights in life. A lot of posts on my blog focus on this idea that happiness is found in the ordinary, but I’ve never been able to sum up as perfectly as Dolly how the beauty of life resides not in the extraordinary but in the everyday. I’m sure I still won’t be able to put it as well as she did, and you are perfectly welcome to click off and go and read her list instead (no, don't. She's already famous. Read mine).
But her latest piece was one of my favourites - this beautiful list of all her delights in life. A lot of posts on my blog focus on this idea that happiness is found in the ordinary, but I’ve never been able to sum up as perfectly as Dolly how the beauty of life resides not in the extraordinary but in the everyday. I’m sure I still won’t be able to put it as well as she did, and you are perfectly welcome to click off and go and read her list instead (no, don't. She's already famous. Read mine).
It’s quite long, I warn you. I’m quite
a happy person. Sorry about that. But here we go anyway.