When Life Stinks, Find Your Joy!
Issue No. 36 May 8, 2009
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Talk to me!
What brings YOU joy?! 
Kelly Epperson 
PO Box 2324 
Loves Park, IL 61131
kel_epperson@yahoo.com     www.kellyepperson.com
 
 
 
 
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Joy....
Even in trying times, we can feel happy, we can feel joy. Even when we are sad and miserable, there still can be a beam of hope.
 
No matter what you may be going through, I wish you joy, peace, and clarity.
 
 
    
 
Words to ponder:
 
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
-- Henry David Thoreau


 
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Joy = Wisdom
 
Keep company with those who make you better.
--English Proverb

 
Joy = Music
"You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand...."
~Elvis 
 
Joy from 7 habits dude
How different our lives are when we really know what
is deeply important to us, and, keeping that picture
in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to
know what really matters most.--Stephen Covey

Joy = Being brave
 

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
 
 
What is your life about?
 
It is not enough if you are busy. The question is, what are you busy about?
Henry David Thoreau



My favorite quote
 
Enough is as good as a feast.
~Mary Poppins 

Joy Droppings
What brings me joy lately?
                                                     
big things,little things, in between things
*  friends and family
* food and drink
*   a place to sleep
*  soft tissues
 
 
 
 
Joy = Teenage Boys
that's all, just having teenage boys is a joy
Joy = You
Happy Incredible Fabulous Joyous Birthday Wishes to:
  
:( don't have bday book with me....
so happy bday to those who celebrate this week and a big shout out next week   
 
                                                 
 
   
(New JOY seekers/spreaders: Let me know your bday. At the end of each month, I draw a name and one birthday person gets a joy present in the mail.)
 
 
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Joy = Books & Movies
Book Pick This Week =      something to soothe the soul 
 
 
Flick Pick This Week =       something to make me laugh
 
 
 
Quote Junkie
 
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank 

 
Joy = the Beatles
 let it be
 
 
Joy = Never Give Up
 
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
 ~Henry David Thoreau
 

 
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Joy = Yahoo Headline
  
"Denial may be the key to a happy marriage, study finds."
JOY
 
 
 
tune playing at the moment...  (playing in my mind anyway) 
 
Come on, get happy.......


JOY = Words to live by
 
 
 
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength. 
Hasidic saying

Joy = Vocabulary
 Today's Word: Dwam (Noun)

Pronunciation: ['dw�m]

Definition 1: 1) A fainting fit, a swoon; 2) a daydream.

 

Joy = Writing
 
 
 
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. --William Makepeace Thackeray 

Peace. 
 
joyfully,                                                                    
xx kelly         
 
 
                                                                
 
Joy =  Parting Shot
 
... feel the fear...
...do it anyway.....
 
 
 
 
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
- Helen Keller 
 
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