San Diego Festival of Books - Happy National Happiness Happens Month

Happy National Happiness Happens Month! Books take me to many happy places so I linked this wonderful festival to National Happiness Happens Month!

Let's get together and have a day full of books and book loving people! Due to the nature of this event - an all-day fair with attendees choosing to arrive anytime between 10:00 am & 4:00 pm, and with various author events scheduled throughout the day - we'll probably get separated at times.
I set a meeting place at the UC SAN DIEGO BOOK STORE BOOTH for 9:45-10:00 am for those of us who arrive at that time to meet and start the day. I'll also share my cell phone number with anyone who meets me in the morning who wants to meet for lunch.

The San Diego Union-Tribune’s 7th Annual Festival of Books will be held on Aug. 19 presented by the University of San Diego.

The Festival of Books, hosted on the University of San Diego campus, is a free event for book lovers of all ages. Attendees will enjoy workshops, activities, photo booths, live entertainment, food trucks, and discussions with award-winning authors.
Line up of authors: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/festivalofbooks/authors

General admission is free. Registration is strongly encouraged.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-san-diego-union-tribunes-7th-annual-festival-of-books-tickets-605087130897

Certain author panels will require special tickets and will be released in July or August.

From NationalDayCalendar.com:
HAPPINESS HAPPENS MONTH

Once upon a time, a real group called the Secret Society of Happy People decided to dedicate a day to the pursuit of happiness. Members of the society wanted to let happy feelings linger inside them every day.

In 2000, the Secret Society of Happy People expanded the celebration to Happiness Happens Month in August.

Happiness is a choice. Remembering happiness does not mean you are problem-free. That kind of life doesn’t exist. As the Stoics of Ancient Greece observed, happiness is all about the quality of your thoughts. Happiness is not a destination, but rather a life-long pursuit. Joy can be anywhere at any time. Don’t limit yourself to searching for pleasure. Enjoy everything and anything that makes you happy. Oprah Winfrey said it wasn’t until she learned to be happy that good things started happening to her.

> “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
> ― Abraham Lincoln

If you struggle with finding happiness, you can learn to be happy. There is plenty of helpful advice available to guide you in the right direction. Reading self-help material is an excellent place to start. Here are a few published works you might want to read to help you in your pursuit of happiness:

• The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Most of the best “how to be happy” books and videos boil down to variations of the Ancient Greek philosophy of stoicism (not to be confused with the modern use of the word). The essence of stoicism is this: no matter what is wrong with the world in general, and your life in particular, you can choose to be happy if you learn how.

> “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any set of circumstances, to choose one’s way.”
> -Viktor Frankl