Tucson Meet Yourself Festival: An Abundance of Happiness

This post could just as appropriately be on my AnitaWrites blog since it highlights the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival which was one of the primary "reasons for happiness in Tucson" cited in my Talk UP^ Tucson... book.  But, since I am writing this on Sunday, my "slowww day" (supposedly), I am putting it on the Slow Life blog.

We spent three hours at the Festival (now in its 40th year and a true legacy from the SW Folklore Center/now a part of the UA's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Folklore Center's founder "Big" Jim Griffith).  We could have spent another two or three hours with the entertainment, food booths, or the booths we didn't see on the southside of Broadway, but fatigue set in around 4 p.m..  But what we did see we enjoyed: the PACC booth (I hope some of the lonely dogs were adopted), the Chinese Cultural Center (nice display and I learned they have Tai Chi classes open to the public), the robot display at the Sonoran Science Academy booth, and, of course--the SBS Happiness Booth and the Public Library's expanded display of Happiness Books. 

Mark took more photos, but here is a sample of why we love to live in Tucson and what brings happiness into our lives.

Early autumn sunlight in front of our historic courthouse:

 

There are even more books now on the library's Happiness display.  And the ones they have of mine are either "out", "on hold" or only in collections:).

 

 

Here is the UA's SBS Booth spreading the words of Happiness:

 

 

One of the activities I hope to replicate at the Library and Community Renaissance's Happiness Community Conversations (which start this week) is a paper chain of words of happiness.