Agaran wrote this piece one day, and I'm pleased to repost it here as a guest blog:

Happiness is...

...celebrating the beginning of a seventh wonderful year with your dearly loved, remarkably generous partner, and then, a few days later...

...celebrating the beginning of a thirteenth wonderful year with your dearly loved, remarkably generous wife.

...having a very cherished but infrequently seen girlfriend over for a rare visit with the whole family, including dinner with them before a wonderful date.

...laying back in a redwood hot tub with your lover with only candelight and our own shared thoughts and feelings for illumination.

...having one lover offer her very private bedroom for you to be intimate with -- and sleep all night undisturbed with -- your other lover.

...seeing the fire and light and joy in your partner's eyes, sharing love with her by candlelight, then falling asleep in each other's arms.

...seeing your visiting girlfriend appreciate your son's guitar performance, complete with gyrating hips and improvised lyrics, then see her tune his guitar, and then play "If I Had a Hammer."

...having your wife make her special Challah French Toast for her sons and husband, her visiting lover, your other partner, and your visiting lover.

...seeing your lover leave, and not feeling too strong a post-date crash, because you know that it was as meaningful to her as it was to you, and that even though you only seldom see one another, you're important and valuable to each other.

...getting to spend time with your wife's boyfriend, and seeing what really great, careful choices she makes, and seeing how great he is with your kids, and how much he, too, loves cats, and how much they care for each other, and how happy they make each other.

I am loved, and I love, my loves love and are loved, my children are safe and well. That's all one really needs to know.