五月的槐花
①母亲打来电话，告诉我故乡的槐花又开了。放下电话，轻轻推开窗户，一股晚风夹杂着城市特有的气味扑面而来。望着街道上熙熙攘攘的人群，我突然感觉心里空荡荡的。 
②好不容易捱到天亮，随便装点了行囊，我便踏上了回乡的路途。 
③刚走到村口，远远的我便看到了坐在门前老槐树下的母亲。 
④“妈——” 
⑤我的喉咙里涩涩的，A.母亲抬起头，摘下眼镜，眼睛里满是惊喜，随即放下手中的活，像个孩子似的拉着我的手问长问短。我觉得母亲好像又苍老了许多。我鼻子一酸，泪水差点流了出来。母亲好像觉察到了什么，便岔开话题：“云儿，快歇着去，妈去给你打水，洗把脸再说。”母亲顺手拿起毛巾和脸盆。我分明看到：母亲在转身的那一瞬间，迅速地拭去了腮边两行浊泪…… 
⑥捧起冰凉的井水洗完脸后，顿觉轻松了许多。摆脱了平日里繁多的应酬，此时只想美美地睡上一觉，就势躺在大沙发上，竟酣然入睡了。 
⑦一觉醒来，母亲不知干什么去了，我信步走出了卧室。B.屋外，一树树槐花开得正艳，满树晶莹的花瓣如串串剔透的水晶，鹅黄的花蕊不时散发着醉人的清香。 
⑧母亲颤巍巍地站在凳子上，踮着双脚，举着一根长长的竹竿，吃力地从树枝上打下串串的槐花。如血的残阳，母亲的身影显得格外瘦弱。不觉中淡淡的花香将我眼睛浸得湿润…… 
⑨晚上，母亲在闷热的厨房里，又是和面，又是洗槐花。忙活了大半天，才兴冲冲地端给我一碗馋人的槐花饭。我接过这似有千钧的“佳肴”，狼吞虎咽地吃个精光。母亲静静地坐在我的对面，满脸都是灿烂的笑容。 
⑩临睡前，母亲从衣柜里拿出崭新的床单、被褥，铺好床后，再三嘱咐我盖好被子，乡下夜里寒气重。那晚，母亲将我的脚丫紧紧的搂在她温暖的怀抱。温馨的梦里，我拉着母亲的手，坐在开满槐花的山坡，听她讲《王子与母亲》的故事…… 
⑪第二天，母亲起得很早，走了四五里山路从镇上买来一瓶槐花蜜，硬是塞进了早已被她塞得满满的行囊。接着便又张罗着为我做早点。望着母亲忙碌的身影，刹那间我竟觉得自己就是故事中那位残忍的王子。 
⑫临走时，母亲拖着疲惫的身子，将我送到村口，又是一番千叮咛，万嘱咐。      
⑬坐在返城的客车上，窗外，一树树冰清玉洁的槐花一闪而过，我蓦然觉得，母亲的爱诚如这朴实而又圣洁的槐花，虽然平凡却又凝重而深沉，足以让我一辈子去细细品味。五月的风拂过脸庞，一缕醉人的幽香潜入心底，淡淡的花香中，我已泪流满面……

    Your life is composed of all the little things we experience everyday, and knowing how to find joy in some of those little things is one of the easiest ways to let happiness slowly fill your cup. In order for that to happen, you need to do two very simple things, put yourself in such situations that you can experience happiness there, and then find a way to savour the experience and let it sink into you.

    To put yourself in the position of experiencing happiness every day, Lahan Catalino, Ph.D, at the University of California, San Francisco, recommends an approach called “prioritizing positivity”—organizing your day-to-day life on purpose so that it contains situations which naturally give rise to positive emotions. It involves both carving out time in your daily routine to do things that you really love and heavily weighing the positive emotional consequences of major life decisions, like taking a new job, and you will regularly find yourself.

    Then how can we find away to savour the happy experience and let it sink into you? Here is what psychologist Rick Hanson, the author of Buddha's Brain explains.

    Let a good fact become a good experience.

    Often we go through life and some good thing happens—a little thing like we checked off an item on our To Dc list, we survived another day at work, the flowers are blooming, and so forth. Hey, this is an opportunity to feel good. Don't leave the money lying on the table: recognize that this is an opportunity to let yourself truly feel good.

    Really enjoy this positive experience.

    Practice what any school teacher knows: if you want to help people learn something, make it as intense as possible—in this case, as felt in the body as possible—for as long as possible.

    When sinking into this experience, sense your intention that this experience is sinking into you.

    Sometimes people do this through visualization, like by sensing a golden light coming into themselves or a soothing balm inside themselves. You might imagine a jewel going into the treasure chest in your heart—or just know that this experience is sinking into you, becoming a resource you can take with you no matter where you go.

    It might seem a little cliche to say“stop and smell the roses”, but it's moments like those that can be stored in your happiness bank and withdrawn later. Living a happy life can be as simple as accepting the happiness that's already around you. If you want more, it's OK to go out and achieve it, but don't forget where happiness really comes from.

课内阅读《小英雄雨来》。

       雨来半天才喘过气来，脑袋里像有一窝蜂，嗡嗡地叫。他两眼直冒金花，鼻子流着血。一滴一滴的血滴下来，溅在课本那几行字上：“我们是中国人，我们爱自己的祖国。”

       鬼子打得累了，雨来还是咬着牙，说：“没看见！”扁鼻子军官气得暴跳起来，嗷嗷地叫：“枪毙，枪毙！拉出去，拉出去！”