Short Notes from the Long History of Happiness

by Michael Leunig

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670874051
• ISBN13: 9780670874057
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Happiness is a Leunig Book

First of all it should be said that this book is NOT out of print. It's freely available in bookstores in Australia and it is something I give as a present to people who mean a lot to me, or whom I sense WILL mean a lot to me.How to define the eclectic enigma that is Michael Leunig? A poet, a painter, a singer of the soul's deepest longings - all of these and more. Leunig is best known as a cartoonist, but instead of lampooning politics, satirising society, he holds up a gentle spiritual mirror of the soul to the human condition. In doing so he whimsically touches what is fundamentally spiritual in all of us, and makes us better people into the bargain.... witness this little gem, accompanied by a gloriously simple yet moving sketched cartoon...When the heart is cut or cracked or broken do not clutch it let the wound lie openLet the Wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it stingLet a stray dog lick it. Let a bird lean in the hole and sing, a simple song like a tiny bell. And let it ringLet it go. Let it out. Let it all unravel. Let it free and it can be A path on which to travel.Leunig himself provides that path and reminds us, while we smile through our tears, that the history of happiness is as old as each of us. We just have to reach inside and find it.