| When Life Stinks, Find Your Joy! |
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Talk to me!
What brings YOU joy?! |
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Kelly Epperson
PO Box 2324
Loves Park, IL 61131
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It's a small world.
Last week I included the iconic Mary Tyler Moore hat toss photo. (There is a statue of MTM in Minneapolis doing this fling to the wind. Road trip anyone?)
My friend Lori Koepp sent me this about that photograph:
Fun fact for you...the lady in the Mary Tyler Moore shot with the hair scarf turning and staring at her is Dave's Aunt Harriet!! When that was filmed she came home and told everyone,"There was some crazy lady throwing her hat in the air in the middle of the street today." Little did she know she'd be seen by billions every MTM episode!"
HOW FUN IS THAT!
You're gonna make it after all.
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(The book When Life Stinks, It's Time to Wash the Gym Clothes by Kelly Epperson is available at www.whenlifestinks.com) |
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| Joy = Life |
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7 Simple Steps
You've seen this before (maybe in a prior joy letter). It's good to be reminded from time to time.
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.
2. Keep only cheerful friends.
3. Keep learning.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud... Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on.
7. Surround yourself with what you love.
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| Joy = Music |
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Lyrics to love:
Boom Boom
out go the lights
~Pat Travers Band
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| Joy - More Music |
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Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again.....
Name the artist?
<<The Fortunes>>
You can't eat just one potato chip, and you can't do just one youtube.
Warning: sap alert.
Not sure what I like more, the clothes or the earnestness.
Can you imagine the critique Simon would give?
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Joy = Words to Live By |
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We're fools whether we dance or not,
so we might as well dance.
~Japanese proverb |
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Joy = Poetry |
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Advice to Young Poets
by Martin Espada
Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head
"Advice to Young Poets" by Mart�n Espada, from The Republic of Poetry. � W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. (From emailed Writers Alamanac)
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| Joy Droppings |
| What brings me joy lately?
* Dancing
* Sticking a plunger on my head
* Ready-made margaritas
* People who helped me, in big and small ways
* Joy rides and Dilly bars with my 6 year old friend Blake
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the wonder of it all... |
Wisdom begins with wonder.
~Socrates
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"A sea of wildflowers. Nygren wetlands. Ice cream shop in Rockton."
~Allen P, New Milford
"A crap-load of good news today.... drivers license photo that is actually decent and looks like me....a job offer that pays way more... a week in Vegas for my birthday....I'm practically jumping out of my skin with JOY and thought I'd share it."
~Jim H, Woodridge
"I want to share with you a poem that my mother taught me when I was a little girl.
Je vous aimee
Je vous adore,
Que voulez-vous plus encore?
She said that it meant, "I love you, I adore you, what more do you want?"
~Cheryl O, Loves Park
"What brought me joy was an early birthday present my 5 year old son made for me yesterday which was a flower made of beads on a ribbon for my keychain....
Oh and the cutest little thing my kids have been saying this summer is the word
spa ge toes - supposed to be mosquitos!! Too funny! Can you tell they are part Italian!"
~Lisa C, Rockford
"A favorite quote --
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
-Helen Keller
~Minta G, Greenville, SC
"What brings me JOY lately:
My new Blackberry with unlimited internet and texting
Picking up 50 lbs of fresh blueberries in Michigan to restock my freezer for the winter (I am such a good squirrel!)
Having responsible teenagers that we can leave home alone overnight"
~Mary Sunshine, Winnebago
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Joy = 3 minute Musicals |
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WEB SITE STORY
Thanks, AATH Mary Kay and Karen! |
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Joy = Word Nerd |
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Pusillanimous (adjective)
Pronunciation: [pyu-si-'l�-n�-m�s]
Definition: Faint-hearted, lacking courage.
Usage: The meaning of this adjective is weaker and less offensive than "cowardly." The noun is pusillanimity [pyu-s�-l�-'ni-m�-tee].
Suggested Usage: Don't be too pusillanimous to use today's word; it isn't all that long and stands in nicely for "faint-hearted" when you need a weaker term than "cowardly." " It helps you avoid "fear" too: "Only his pusillanimity with women has prevented Carlton from asking Meredith to marry him."
Etymology: Late Latin pusillanimis from Latin pusillus "weak," diminutive of pullus "young (animal)" + animus "soul, spirit, mind." "Pullus" is related to English "pullet" and comes from pusus "boy," related to puer "boy" which gave English "puerile." Latin "animus" is related to Greek anemos "wind" whence English anemone. "Pullus" comes from the underlying root pau- "small, few" which turns up in English "few" and "foal."
-Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
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| Joy = You |
Happy Incredible Fabulous Joyous Birthday Wishes to:
Ernest Hemingway
Ann K
Jake H
Lisa C
Joanne M (My Mommy)
Abby H
Gram O (she's hanging with Hemingway)
Did you know...
if you google "ice cream," you get 69,500,000 results.
(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 = Life is a Verb by Patti Digh
Flick Pick = Umm, confession time. I have a TV now. And I watched it. Oh my. I found a new show (on Lifetime!) (Girly girls rules!) called Drop Dead Diva. There've been two episodes so far and I think I'm hooked. |
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| Quote Junkie |
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp.
Or what's a heaven for? --Robert Browning
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| Live With Intention |
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Defeat is not the worst of failures.
Not to have tried is the true failure.
--George E. Woodberry
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| EMail Jokes.... |
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A very tired nurse walks into a bank,
Totally exhausted after an 18-hour shift.
Preparing to write a check,
She pulls a rectal thermometer out of her purse
And tries to write with it.
When she realizes her mistake,
She looks at the flabbergasted teller
And without missing a beat, she says:
'Well, that's great....that's just great...
Some asshole's got my pen!
Thanks Channahon Connie!
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| Joy = The Archives |
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Need a joy fix?
Head to the archives of past joy droppings.
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| Sunrise, sunset |
This is not an online quiz.
Hug or Kiss? (I NEED BOTH.)
Chocolate or Vanilla (BOTH, in a twist cone.)
Sunrise or Sunset? (BOTH, watch the sunset and stay up to see sunrise.)
Back in June, Tammy Lewis (Director of Center for Learning in Retirement - they rock!) emailed this photo she snapped of the evening sky in Rockford. She wanted to send me joy and she had no idea I was a sunset person. Ah, synchronicities....
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| Take your candle, go light your world |
Chris Rice, songwriter
"There is a candle in every soul
Some brightly burning
Some dark and cold.....
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Thank you. You bring me joy.
joyfully,
xx kelly
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| Joy = Parting Shot |
Being practical and safe and always logical is way overrated.
~Patti Digh, Life is a Verb
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| Joy = Play the Music Loud |
tune stuck in my head:
We built this city on rock n roll.........
Jefferson Starship
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