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Two of our stories today prompt a question: What is the true substance of happiness? For nearly five decades, Marci Carpenter has found an answer among the stacks at the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library in Seattle, a public institution now threatened by聽 budget cuts. That鈥檚 where she first encountered the poetry of Robert Frost. 鈥淚t was this really liberating experience,鈥� she recalls. That kind of freedom resonates with Miia Huitti, too. As a new mother, the career-driven Finn found her way through an emotional crisis by practicing gratitude. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not that you have to be joyful all the time,鈥� she says. 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 see the stars if it鈥檚 light all the time. It鈥檚 an inner sense that you can be happy no matter the circumstance.鈥�