5 Things Making Me Happy
Nothing makes me happier than discovering a new, useful word. Here’s a word for something that I’ve known about for years, but never knew that a term existed for it: “camel case,” also known as “bicapitalization.” That’s when a capital letter is used to begin the second word in a compound phrase or name. “WordPerfect,” “iPhone,” “eBay,” “FedEx,” but not “Myspace.”
In my book about the five senses, I have a theme of “looking for the overlooked.” One thing I’ve been trying to do is to pay attention to often-overlooked areas such as stairwells, forgotten corners, or ceilings. I loved looking at the images of these gorgeous ceilings from around the world—each is spectacular so would be hard to miss.
A friend told me about Nikon’s Small World photography competition. I love miniatures, and this competition takes smallness to an entirely new level. It covers “photomicrography,” i.e., photos taken through a microscope. What is more beautiful than the structure of nature?
I’ve long been fascinated by the subject of color. One dark chapter in our pursuit of gorgeous color was the use of poisonous arsenic to create the color green in bookbinding, garments—and wallpaper. I was fascinated by this article about the book Shadows from the Walls of Death. In 1874, after the dangers of arsenic wallpaper were discovered, Dr. R. M. Kedzie published a collection of swatches of the poisonous paper. Only about a hundred copies of this dangerous book were made, and only six remain, because most recipients destroyed their copies out of fear.
More accessibility updates! We’ve added transcripts to the show notes of our podcast episodes. To take a look, go to episode 403 of Happier with Gretchen Rubin and click the “+” beside “Transcript” to read the transcript. Making the show more accessible makes me happy.
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