Happiness Runs...

  

"I paint on fabric while singing  a song

 and I can't go wrong.....

'cause if  you can't recall the words,

 make up some new ones 

as you hum along! "

Sonja   sept 17, 2013

 with music as theme for ATC this month in

heARTisttradngcards,

I  thought about a song I  have loved for a long time
 by Donovan

called Happiness Runs.

You may have heard it in commercials with breakfast cereal a while back

with kids in colorful inner tubes floating about in what appeared to be milk.

  Recently I heard it in a cat food commercial with a big red tabby like Morris.

It is one that gets in your head and plays there. again.

 Recently while conducting a painting class I looked up to see a boat on the water

 with red sails, Again.

I  am apt to say  "paint what you see " to myself as well as folks
 with paint and brushes and fabric before them.

and that is not the first year that boat has appeared  during class time.

we saw this a year or two back as well,
 those same deep reddish sails on a little boat
 upon the blue Pacific!

 the words from Donovan are here if you aren't familiar with them .

the short version goes;

"Happiness runs in a circular motion

Thought is like a little boat upon the sea

Everybody is a part of everything anyway

you can have everything if you let yourself be

Happiness runs  happiness runs. "
 If you have interest, 
Read more: Donovan - Happiness Runs Lyrics | MetroLyrics

if you are my age or older, you might also enjoy singing

" Red sails in the Sunset "!

 Bing Crosby (1935) was first to record it I think,
 and many artists  have covered this song, many !
So what is on your hit parade?
   

Happiness Runs!

here's Ruby enjoying boxes of fabric