Little Happier: A Dog’s Pleasure Can Remind Us All of the Joy of the Snow.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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NOTE: This episode was recorded before the COVID-19 situation took hold. Given the rapidly changing situation, it may be jarring to hear me ignore it—and that’s why. What a wonderful phrase! The joy of the snow. It’s not always easy to feel the joy of the snow. Sometimes we’re able to see it better, when we can glimpse it through other people’s joyful eyes. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, and Happier in Hollywood. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Grychen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:04.0	I love to read and I always enjoy thinking about why a book has the title that it has.
0:09.7	I think titles matter a lot.
0:11.6	I give my own titles a great deal of thought and I give a lot of attention to other people's
0:16.2	titles.
0:17.2	And I was very interested in a title that writer Elizabeth Goosh chose for one of her books.
0:23.1	I love the work of Elizabeth Goosh, her adult novels, her children novels, and her nonfiction.
0:28.4	She wrote a thought-provoking memoir called The Joy of the Snow.
0:33.0	That's an unexpected title, so as I read, I was curious to discover the reason she had
0:38.8	chosen it.
0:40.3	And here it is.
0:43.0	Her mother, accompanied by the dog, Coach, had plowed her way through a deep fall of snow
0:47.6	to fetch her youngest home from nursery school.
0:50.8	The hard-going had been awareness, the cold, a misery to the flesh.
0:57.2	Looking back again, her youngest attached, a small voice sang out beside her, look,
1:02.4	mummy, look at Coach and the joy of the snow.
1:05.4	Coach was leaping and rolling in the snow, his eyes like stars, his tail a banner.
1:10.5	The little girl's eyes were as bright as his, her face pink inside her hood.
1:15.1	The mother for a few moments looked at the snow through their eyes and the earth had not
1:19.8	smudged it.
1:22.1	What a wonderful phrase, the joy of the snow.
1:25.9	It's not always easy to feel the joy of the snow.
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