GLYNIS CRAWFORD SMITH
THE HIGHLANDER
The phrase Gross National Happiness (GNH) may have been coined in 1972 by Bhutan's fourth Dragon King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck as an option to gross domestic product (GDP) in measuring what is important to the country’s citizens, but the idea is not wasted on the West today.
Paula Francis was in Marble Falls this week and you may even have met her—the lady with the safety orange vest emblazoned with “Happinesswalk.com.”
Francis and friends from her home in Vermont visited Bhutan in the Himalayan mountains and it made her stop and think seriously about happiness.
