Last night's sunset at Yellowstone Lake.

It was a really gorgeous day in the park yesterday, not too hot and not too cool. Yellowstone Lake was very calm, so I decided to take a photo of the sunset to end a fun day. I hope you enjoy it too. =]:)

This is my new favorite word

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pronounced: [hwif-ler, wif-]

Do you know anyone like this? How would you use this word in a sentence? How about, That politician is a real whiffler. Okay, your turn!

This is my new favorite word

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller

ikigai is pronounced: https://youtu.be/AF9DDuo1vao

Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means "a reason for being." It is similar to the French phrase Raison d'être. Everyone, according to Japanese culture, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self. Such a search is important to the cultural belief that discovering one's ikigai brings satisfaction and meaning to life.

Examples include work, hobbies and raising children.

The term ikigai compounds two Japanese words: iki meaning "life; alive" and kai "(an) effect; (a) result; (a) fruit; (a) worth; (a) use; (a) benefit; (no, little) avail" (sequentially voiced as gai) "a reason for living [being alive]; a meaning for [to] life; what [something that] makes life worth living; a raison d'etre".

In the culture of Okinawa, ikigai is thought of as "a reason to get up in the morning"; that is, a reason to enjoy life. In a TED Talk, Dan Buettner suggested ikigai as one of the reasons people in the area had such long lives.

The word ikigai is usually used to indicate the source of value in one's life or the things that make one's life worthwhile. Secondly, the word is used to refer to mental and spiritual circumstances under which individuals feel that their lives are valuable. It's not necessarily linked to one's economic status or the present state of society. Even if a person feels that the present is dark, but they have a goal in mind, they may feel ikigai. Behaviors that make us feel ikigai are not actions we are forced to take—these are natural and spontaneous actions.

You can read more about this words meaning on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

This is my new favorite word

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin

Pronounced: /ˈɡadəˌbout/

Are you a gadabout? Where is your favorite place to go?

Let's go for a nice, relaxing ride.

The Grand Loop Road provides access to major areas and features of Yellowstone park, including the Upper, Midway and Lower geyser basins, Mammoth Hot Springs, Tower Fall, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Yellowstone Lake.

Captain Hiram M. Chittenden of the US Army Corps of Engineers was the one who originally planned the 140 mile road system in the early days of the park, when it was under military administration. The road was named by Harry W. Frantz in 1923. He served as the park's publicist before beginning a journalism career.

Photo by NPS/Jacob W. Frank

This is my new favorite word

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. - Omar Khayyam

Pronounced: /yo͞odəˈmänik/

My good friend, +A Long found this word for me so I hope he stops by and gives us an example of how he would use it in a sentence! Be sure to check out his profile and collections if you enjoy poems, and interesting articles, and just plain fun. :-)

One possible way to use this word: In France the atmosphere is emphatically eudaemonic; happiness is the goal. Your turn.