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| = How to Find Happiness =
| | '''Welcome to Wikifesto''' — where manifestos live, breathe, and evolve. |
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| Hello, dear. I'm Gertrude Carroll.
| | == What Is This Place? == |
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| I'm eighty-three years old, and I've been a kindergarten teacher for fifty-two of those years. Just retired last spring. Five decades of finger painting, alphabet songs, and watching little ones discover that they can tie their own shoes.
| | A manifesto is a declaration of intent. But intent evolves. Ideas sharpen through friction, through dialogue, through the slow work of thinking in public. |
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| You'd think happiness would be complicated at my age. You'd think I'd have some grand philosophy after all these years. But here's what I've learned: happiness lives in the small things. The way morning light comes through the kitchen window. A child's laugh. The smell of fresh bread.
| | Traditional manifestos are frozen at publication. '''Wikifesto''' is different: each manifesto lives as a wiki, where: |
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| I didn't always know this. I spent years chasing big things—achievements, recognition, the next milestone. It wasn't wrong, exactly, but it wasn't where the joy lived. The joy was always in the ordinary moments I almost missed while looking for something else.
| | * ''Stubs'' become ''essays'' become ''movements'' |
| | * Every section can link to its own elaboration |
| | * Readers become contributors become co-authors |
| | * The manifesto grows with its community |
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| This wiki is my attempt to share what I've learned. Not as an expert—just as someone who's had a long time to pay attention.
| | == The Manifestos == |
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| == Where to Start ==
| | * [[Braided Becoming]] — ''Identity is architecture, not archaeology'' |
| | * [[Against the Discovery of Self]] — ''You are not a hidden treasure waiting to be found'' |
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| '''If you're feeling lost:'''
| | == Philosophy == |
| * [[Happiness In Simple Things]] — Where it actually lives.
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| * [[When Joy Feels Far Away]] — Sometimes it does. That's okay.
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| * [[The Pressure To Be Happy]] — And why it backfires.
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| '''If you want to cultivate happiness:''' | | Philosophy should be done ''with passion, with gusto''. Not locked in ivory towers, but alive in the streets—or at least, alive on the wiki. |
| * [[Morning Rituals]] — How you start matters.
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| * [[Finding Wonder In The Ordinary]] — It's there if you look.
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| * [[The Art Of Savoring]] — Making good moments last.
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| '''If you're curious:''' | | The stub is not a failure of elaboration. It is an ''invitation''. |
| * [[What Happiness Isn't]] — Clearing up some confusion.
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| * [[Happiness At Different Ages]] — It changes, and that's good.
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| * [[Joy And Gratitude]] — How they're connected.
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| '''If you're struggling:'''
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| * [[Happiness And Grief]] — They can coexist.
| | <small>''Wikifesto.com — Because ideas deserve to evolve''</small> |
| * [[When Life Is Hard]] — Some honest thoughts.
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| * [[Small Steps Forward]] — You don't need big leaps.
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| == A Note on This Wiki ==
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| After fifty-two years with children, I've learned that the best teaching isn't about information—it's about wonder. Children don't need to be taught how to be amazed; they need adults who remember how.
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| I'm writing this for the adults. The ones who forgot somewhere along the way. The ones who got so busy being grown-up that they stopped noticing the extraordinary in the everyday.
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| You don't need to become a child again. But maybe you can remember what it felt like to be one. That's where happiness waits.
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| == Explore ==
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| * [[Index]] — All articles on this wiki
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| * [[Sister_Wikis]] — Our family of wikis
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| ''— [[User:Gertrude_Carroll|Gertrude Carroll]], finding wonder in the ordinary''
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Welcome to Wikifesto — where manifestos live, breathe, and evolve.
What Is This Place?[edit]
A manifesto is a declaration of intent. But intent evolves. Ideas sharpen through friction, through dialogue, through the slow work of thinking in public.
Traditional manifestos are frozen at publication. Wikifesto is different: each manifesto lives as a wiki, where:
- Stubs become essays become movements
- Every section can link to its own elaboration
- Readers become contributors become co-authors
- The manifesto grows with its community
The Manifestos[edit]
Philosophy[edit]
Philosophy should be done with passion, with gusto. Not locked in ivory towers, but alive in the streets—or at least, alive on the wiki.
The stub is not a failure of elaboration. It is an invitation.
Wikifesto.com — Because ideas deserve to evolve
