Happiness of Living

How to talk about happiness? Can everyone share it, since each person's happiness is their own? Marina Biryukova, the author of the prose collection "Happiness of Living," has managed to do this. The writer not only tells but shows how to learn to find joy every day. In life itself. In events, people, the nature surrounding us... "Why do we need animals, of which many have passed through our family? They helped us, people, to love each other. It was not always easy for us. And the animals served as bridges. They lived among us, softening our mutual bruises, blows against each other - and we often hit and felt it. They relieved the tension, taught us to smile and, day after day, to discover the beauty of the world around us. To offer our palms to the spring thaw. To wait for the starling. To plant seedlings in the ground. To inhale the smell of blooming apple trees. To rejoice in guests. To pray to God. To rub ripe viburnum with honey. To visit old things in the attic. To receive the signal of the night cricket. To play hide and seek with the autumn fog. To inhale the bittersweet smoke of the fire. To stand on Earth and look at the star Mizar..."