The Optimist: 15 ways to be less perfect (and probably happier) in 2019 6JAN19

FIRST time back on line at home since right after Thanksgiving, I just had a lot more important things to do in December than get on line......Here is a good way to start posting again, with articles from the Washington Post Optimist.......

15 ways to be less perfect (and probably happier) in 2019 Perfection is impossible. Let’s stop chasing it. Read more Perspective Happy New Year, everyone. Stop trying to be happy all the time. We have this misguided idea that happiness is the primary thing toward which we should be striving. By Kristin Clark Taylor · Read more   Opinion New Year’s resolutions are hard to stick to. So try out New Year’s ‘firsts.’ Even in your own neighborhood, there is guaranteed to be something you’ve never tried before. By Erik Orton · Read more   Robert Frost wrote this masterpiece in about 20 minutes. It belongs to all of us now. The poet's beloved "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" entered the public domain at midnight on New Year's Day along with a huge cache of other previously copyrighted material. By Steve Hendrix · Read more   ‘New Year’s miracle’: With help from a dog, a Russian baby was rescued after 36 hours in rubble The 11-month-old went missing when an apartment building collapsed. By Siobhán O'Grady · Read more   Perspective The video of my dad appeared unexpectedly from a kind stranger. It gave me chills. The stranger said he had lifelong insomnia and spends his time watching old game shows on YouTube. By Chris Harry · Read more   Here are NASA’s first up-close images of the most distant object ever explored Ultima Thule, made of two icy space rocks smashed together, resembles a reddish snowman. By Sarah Kaplan · Read more   This woman offered to be the ‘mom’ at any gay wedding. Her post went viral. "If you need a mom to attend your same sex wedding because your biological mom won’t,” she wrote, “call me." By Cathy Free · Read more   China lands spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a historic first The mission will explore a massive crater at the lunar south pole. By Sarah Kaplan, Gerry Shih and Rick Noack · Read more   Lawmakers hail a new ‘sisterhood’ as more than 100 women take their seats in the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other female House members — nearly 90 percent of whom are Democrats — represent a new era in the historically male-dominated Congress. By Elise Viebeck · Read more   Perspective How Scrooge came to the rescue for D.C.’s homeless kids The cast of "A Christmas Carol" at Ford’s Theatre decided to collect donations for the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project. The result was extraordinary. By Petula Dvorak · Read more