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“Spot settled sullenly on the residential section through which Henry walked. The day’s glow was gone, and a deep bitter gloom was on him. He looked out, not to sink in. A dog barked at a window. Cars passed. A child smashed ants on the sidewalk with an egg-shaped stone. No, not a stone. Plastic again.

Reading

Big step up from the previous book for this class. The writing is stupendous and engaging.

Reading this for PSYC 3000: The Science of Happiness. Not off to an incredibly strong start. Some parts I whole-heartedly agree with like what we think will make us happy vs. what actually makes us happy. However, I don’t know if I fully agree with the downplaying of circumstance and environment. A lot of “if you aren’t happy, just choose to be happy”. A lot of othering/exclusion as far as depression as well.

“The sun was very low but not yet set and the last of it slanted through the rear window. I felt that even the sun belonged to my father, that I had no right to it because it was shining upon my father’s house. I was like his roses, something that belonged to him and not me…”