title: Still Shines the Sun: Finding Happiness Beyond the Storms of Life
author:  P. A. Monson 
description: P. A. Monson was born in San Francisco, California and raised in the Lake Minnetonka area of Minnesota; She later returned to California to raise her family in the beauty of the Sierra Mountains. Now retired, she lives in a small community that is set in both palouse farmland and pine forests of northern Idaho; There she has found the time and inspiration to continue to pursue her writing of fiction and poetry that she first learned to love as a young girl. Her first published book was "Skin Deep"; it takes place in 2187. For more information, you may find it on Amazon.com...search for it using the authors name after the title. "Still Shines the Sun" is now her second published book. The author has five other book projects that are in various stages of completion and each one has a claim on her heart. They all take place in different eras, and each one has a variety of unforgettable characters, an unusual plot, and a facinating setting. P. A. Monson also pursues her love of photography, landscaping, and appreciation for the "things" of the past ~ both historical studies and collecting vintage &amp; antique items she uses in her 1937 Idaho home. For more information and an interactive blog, please visit her website at: pamonson.weebly.com
zlib_text: Stumbling 
  on Happiness
  DANIEL GILBERT
  Alfred A. Knopf                           New York                           2006
  
  CONTENTS
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Epigraph
  Acknowledgments
  Foreword
  PART I PROSPECTION
  1. Journey to Elsewhen
  PART II SUBJECTIVITY
  2. The View from in Here
  3. Outside Looking In
  PART III REALISM
  4. In the Blind Spot of the Mind’s Eye
  5. The Hound of Silence
  
  PART IV PRESENTISM
  6. The Future Is Now
  7. Time Bombs
  PART V RATIONALIZATION
  8. Paradise Glossed
  9. Immune to Reality
  PART VI CORRIGIBILITY
  10. Once Bitten
  11. Reporting Live from Tomorrow
  Afterword
  Notes
  A Note about the Author
  Permissions Acknowledgments
  Illustration Credits
  Copyright Page
  
  For Oli, under the apple tree
  
  One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make
  happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky
  hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and holds fast to the
  days, as to fortune or fame.
  Willa Cather, “Le Lavandou,” 1902
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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