Here’s a question: What’s more fundamentally American than the pursuit of happiness? I mean, the very phrase is enshrined as an “unalienable right” in our Founding Fathers’ OG document, The Declaration of Independence. But nearly two-and-a-half centuries after that aspirational phrase was written on parchment, here we are, still chasing joy. What’s taking so long? In this most gleeful of issues, The Mountains asked an all-star roster of scribes to help find the answer to that most important of questions: Where’s the joy? Our expert writers explore religion, meditating, cannabis, breathing, yoga, Pilates, even adulting in hopes of getting…
