You are right too, FBL.
Happiness often comes from little things (like tiny old libraries and weeds along the road for me).
Your post just now made me realize that--and it occurs to me that I had to pursue my happiness by actively searching out little things to appreciate.
It is dawning on me that happiness in life doesn't just come by osmosis--we have to play an active role in living. I wonder if that means stepping out of the deep emotional mire of various life situations into the "superficial"--the little, ordinary things that we often are too burdened down to consider.