Van Halen, Highway 40 and Happiness
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.03.09 | 9:20 AM ET
In his latest post on the Happy Days blog, Tim Kreider draws from his travel experiences to make an interesting point about happiness: “Maybe we mistakenly think we want ‘happiness,’ which we tend to picture in very vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the harder-edged intensity of experience.”
Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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