Learner Blogger

Today is the United Nations International Day of Happiness. What a wonderful concept. Thank you Bhutan. That's where this idea got off the ground. Bhutan's fourth Dragon King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, coined the concept - Gross National Happiness  - in 1972 to ensure his modernising nation built its economy on Buddhist spiritual values. Listening to RN on the way to my blogging class an Australian UN worker in Bhutan explained how all government decisions had to pass the "happiness" test. For example, would a decision affecting an important environmental asset pass the test? We could sure do with that here. 

This wonderful view across the Bega Valley(April 2013)  adds to my Gross Happiness 

My First Post

You'd think, being a journalist, I'd be writing, writing, writing...Well I'm not, and I should be before it's too late. Learning to blog is my way of getting back into the writing habit AND keeping me within cooee of the must-knows of the new technology.  Here goes...