Delights & Shadows

Blog title borrowed from poet Ted Kooser

Feb 10
“Americans today probably belong to the first generation on earth that looks at a pain-free life as something like a constitutional right.”

Lauren Slater, Welcome to My Country (via psychotherapy)


I don’t know about ‘constitutional right’, but I do think there is too much emphasis on happiness these days—so much that it has the opposite effect.
Posted at 4:25 AM 227 notes
Source: psychotherapy

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