But something else caught my eye. The Emotion Flower is my work & I hold copyright on it. So I’m writing to ask that you give it a credit line. If you would be so kind, it should read: Annette deFerrari, deFerrari design. The image first appeared in American Scientist Magazine in July August, 2001. I’m curious to know where you found it.

That said, I’d like to share with you a quote I have taped up on the wall:

“My experience,” said an old gentleman to me, “has been that I could never succeed in getting the special kind of happiness I had wanted or hope for, but that other kinds of happiness which I did not want and had never hoped for were supplied to me, in the course of life, most lavishly and abundantly. I therefore ended by discovering, though it took me a long time to make the discovery, that the right way to enjoy the happiness within my reach was not to form an ideal of my own and be disappointed when it was not realized — for that it never was — but to accept the opportunities for enjoying life which were offered by life itself from year to year and from day to day. Since I took things in this temper, I have enjoyed really a great amount of happiness, though it has been of a kind entirely different from anything I ever anticipated or laid plans for when I was young.”

–Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Quest of Happiness, 1897

I hope you like the quote.

Have a good weekend.
Kind regards,
Annette deFerrari

My friend who runs Kinokuniya here tells me his out and out bestseller of the moment is “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”.