ohappydays

I read an essay titled "Three Days to See" during my freshman year of college, and it left a subtle but profound impression on me. When I lived in Alabama, my family and I visited Helen Keller's birthplace, which was about an hour and a half away by car. The memory of her essay came to mind during that visit. Though Helen Keller never saw, heard, or spoke, she wrote an essay titled "Three Days t..

When my two daughters were young, one of the animations we enjoyed watching together was ‘Dumbo’. I loved the movie so much that we watched it together dozens of times. The story about Dumbo, a baby elephant teased for his unusually large ears, who learns to fly with the help of crows, was fascinating. Although the movie was made long ago, it still receives love from children around the world. E..

Late at night, I inspect my daughters' rooms on this floor from below the stairs. Despite the lights being on, it's quiet. The daughters won't be coming down. My wife is already asleep. I sneak into the kitchen and search through the refrigerator, but there's nothing there. I check every corner meticulously. Still nothing. I open every cabinet in the kitchen. Still nothing. I search around the l..

When feeling extremely tired or when the body aches and the appetite fades, the food that most desperately comes to mind is usually the one made by mothers in their childhood hometowns. Eating such food feels like it immediately restores the appetite and provides strength to the exhausted body and mind, and in English, such food is called comfort food. Comfort food is typically simple dishes pre..

In Greek mythology, the offspring of the god of light, Hyperion, and the goddess of the sky, Theia, are a son and two daughters: the sun god Helios, the moon goddess Selene, and the goddess of dawn, Eos. Helios rides a chariot drawn by four horses, rising from the east at dawn and setting in the west in the evening, repeating this journey each day. Selene, driving a silver chariot led by black h..