other people's happiness :)

It is a rainy night and I am headachy and even a bit weepy so looking for something good outside of myself is really important right now. Inside my journal I often tuck newspaper clippings that make me feel better...like columns from local papers about animals from local shelters finding new homes or human interest stories that can restore your faith in strangers and the people who live in your community. Below is a section I clipped a while back from The New York Times "Vows" section and it still makes me smile and sigh...I love the photo, especially, for so many reasons, but mostly because the two women in it are so happy and it captures exactly what I had always hoped to find someday.