Growing Happiness

Mature and robust and resonant happiness, like true wealth, is made, seldom simply found. Happiness, spiritual gratitude, unlike material wealth, cannot be inherited by legal right. Happiness, like mental health, and unlike cognitive-affective dissonance, cannot be owned, yet works best when shared, cooperatively governed, and can be as positively illusory and fleeting as chronic stress can be negatively delusional, like Robert Pirsig's "gumption trap." Happiness is the currency of love, as blossoms are to healthy and trusting and cooperative root systems. Why is this as difficult to grasp and hold onto, this ultimate ecopolitical and psychological power of healthy love, spirit of cooperative gratitude for Earth's richly paid-forward Grace, as it is easy to dwell on the fear and angry hated distrustful roots of dissonance and decay and decadence and decomposition? Why would WinWin ecopolitics of happiness grow any less dominant than WinLose suboptimization of integrity's great and small transitional promise? Why either LeftBrain successful outcomes or RightBrain lovely happiness incomes? Why Economic rationality or EcoLogical sacred sanity? Oh right, I recall here at last, Mature and robust and resonant happiness, like true wealth, is cooperatively made, seldom simply found.