| 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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Every life has a story.
What's yours?
Don't like it?
Rewrite it.
The time to be happy is now.
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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 = Think on this |
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There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want and after that, to enjoy it.
Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
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| Joy = Music |
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Lyrics to love:
We learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school....
~"No Surrender," Bruce Springsteen
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| Joy - More Music |
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When I kiss you
I feel a thousand different feelings
~"Beginnings" Chicago
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One should always have camera in the car... up until the bitter end.
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Joy = Be a dreamer |
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Only of one thing I am sure:
When I dream, I am always ageless.
~Poet Elizabeth Coatsworth
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| Joy Droppings |
| What brings me joy lately?
* People who cook for me
* Thunder and lightning
* Discussing black toenail polish
* That little ittybitty teenytiny screwdriver
* Flavored vodka
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Joy = Shine On |
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Nothing depresses me anymore.
For a while in your life you worry about the passage of time and getting old and ...
after a while you just say,"My God, what does it matter? Get on with it."
~Musician Bobby Short
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| joy.... smoke 'em if ya got 'em |
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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and the drinking of alcohol before, after, and, if need be, during all meals and in the intervals between them.
~~Winston Churchill
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you put the boomboom into my heart (another classic lyric. all of life is a song.)
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Joy = Word Nerd |
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Persiflage (noun)
Pronunciation: ['p�r-s�-flahzh]
Definition: Light, sociable chatter or a superficial, sociable manner of speaking.
Usage: Today's word is yet another lexical orphan; no one takes "persiflate" seriously as a member of the English lexical family. It does not even have a plural.
Suggested Usage: Here is the perfect substitute for the overly colloquial term "chit-chat":
"I hate to take Earnest to any social event because he is so inept at persiflage."
How about a quiet evening of wine and persiflage on the verandah or by a crackling fire?
Etymology: French persifler "to banter" comprising per- intensive prefix + siffler "to whistle. "Siffler" comes from Late Latin sifilare, alteration of Latin sibilare "to hiss."
Let's hiss and whistle and make small talk, I mean, persiflage.
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| Life Lessons |
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Nia is a dance/exercise class. In Swahili, Nia means "with purpose." To move with purpose, to live with purpose..... that is joy.
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| Joy = You |
Happy Incredible Fabulous Joyous Birthday Wishes to:
DENISE DAY STELMA
JULIA CHILD
KRIS ZIBELL
MIKE BAYLES
MJ - MELINDA POPE - one of my angels
CHELSEA TRINKA
TAMMI DAY SEFRANEK - BFF SINCE 6TH GRADE!!
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MY FIRSTBORN SON, MY LOVE, MY JOY, THE BOY WHO MAKES ME LAUGH LIKE NO ONE ELSE AND HAS BEEN MY TRUSTED PAL SINCE AUGUST 23, 1992,
TYLER RILEY EPPERSON - "Your mommy thinks you're special."
(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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words matter....actions matter |
I have been taught that successful people make decisions quickly.
Seize the opportunities as they come.
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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| Joy = Books & Movies |
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Book Pick This Week = hmm, no time to read this week, buying school supplies....
Flick Pick = . old home movies :) babies grow up so fast! |
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| My sons |
Born to shop.
Correction: Bored to Shop. |
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| Quote Junkie |
When you know you are right, you don't care what others think.
Sooner or later it will come out in the wash.
~Barbara McClintock |
| blog with me.... |
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Doesn't anyone else find it humorous that I write for HEALTHYRockford.com? Those that know my eating habits should scratch their heads. I love editor Mike DeDoncker for letting me write whatever pops into my head. This week it was Carbs, Glorious Carbs! Read more.
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Joy = People Who DO Something |
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Are you a doer?
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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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| Joy = Teenage Boys |
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"I can go to R-rated movies now without you getting me in, I can buy M-rated video games...."
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Thank you. You bring me joy.
joyfully,
xx kelly
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| Take your candle, go light your world |
Be a lamp, a ladder, or a life boat. ~ Rumi
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| Parting shot... |
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"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life- unless I buy something."
~Jackie Mason
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| Joy = Play me |
You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs,
But I look around me and I see it isn't so.
Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs,
And what's wrong with that?
~Sir Paul McCartney & Wings
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