Childhood Dreams

Each Monday, I discuss my Scrap Happy project based on Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.

August brings us to Contemplating the Heavens.

When I first read this chapter and created an outline (yes, I am a nerd) making connections between the book and scrapbooking, I only came up with one connection.

Today, I can see connections among all three topics Rubin writes about under this theme:

• Read memoirs of catastrophe
• Keep a gratitude journal
• Imitate a spiritual master

I’m going to tell you about the first item on the list today: read memoirs of catastrophe. Rubin focused on reading memoirs of people dealing with sickness and death. Instead of reading memoirs of catastrophe, I decided to finally watch the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. The video is an hour and 16 minutes long, but well worth it.


Pausch talks about his childhood dreams and how we works to fulfill other people’s childhood dreams. I’ve decided to make a layout about my own childhood dreams. You’ll have to wait for the layout because I’m going to share it with you the first Monday in September as part of A Happiness Blog Hop.

I’ll ask you the same question, Pausch asks: are you a Tigger or an Eeyore? Comment below or join the conversation on facebook or twitter.

If you want to read more about Scrap Happy project based on Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun or my Scrap Happy Project, check out the other posts in the Scrap Happy series.

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Stephanie