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Japanese Smiles
**DONATING ALL PROFIT TO TSUNAMI VICTIMS FROM CD SALE**
Just about everyone is watching what is happening in Japan as the number of missing, dead, and displaced rises. Debates on the news about nuclear fallout threaten anyone’s happiness, but would we want to turn a blind eye? This week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would effectively close several earthquake/tsunami detection centers here on the west coast, specifically, in the pacific northwest who did, in fact, get hit by the recent disaster. I am glad I am aware, but unhappy that I feel powerless against these egomaniacs. In Japan, too, they’re questioning they’re government as they face a nuclear crisis in real time on top of an already devastating tragedy. How does one maintain happiness now? What kind of law should they be using? What can they attract?
I don’t know, but in looking at footage of the huddled masses, I certainly noted a middle-aged Japanese woman evacuated from her home looking at a fellow countryman and laughing. I have no idea what she was laughing about and I have no doubt sadness will sweep her, too. Life is merely made up of moments. In a moment, she lost everything. That moment is gone. I hope she finds many more moments to laugh with optimism without losing touch.
I wonder if the Abraham people are meditating right now. They make no public claims of donating any of their money. They suggest turning off the news and literally taking a blind eye to such things. That makes me think they are really out of touch. I am HAPPY to say, I am not. While Beyonce could rebuild the city by hocking her engagement ring, I’m broke and pretty useless, but I do have a product. A product of my creativity and hope. If you buy my hope at a special discount of $11, I will donate to Doctors Without Borders the entire profit of each CD from now until April 1st.
Be Contributing,
Amy
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A frustrated victim of motivational speakers, Arena begins her look at the happiness industry with us while reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She will take us back to a Millionaire Mind Seminar where her quest to live her dreams brought her to a standstill with debt, legal trouble, and living in her worst nightmare - geographically, even.
Amy Arena holds a B.A. in American Studies from San Francisco State University. A respected actress and world-renown singer (at least underground) , Arena has written several peer-appreciated, but not-yet-produced plays, has published poetry and won awards for her short stories on websites that no longer exist, and produced an album that she can't afford to hype with the finesse of the happiness experts.
