Find Your Joy
JOY ~ The Journey of You January 8, 2010 |
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Greetings & Salutations!
Hope your 2010 is off to a rip-roarin' start or a peaceful new beginning, whichever you prefer.
It's a new year, a new decade, and new/renewed commitment to living your life with an open heart and an open mind - open to possibilities and taking chances.
We can't predict the future exactly, but we can have a hand in creating it. Are you excited?
They know enough who know how to learn.
~Henry Adams
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| Lyrics to love |
| I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
"My Way" - songwriters Anka, Revaux, Thibaut, Francois
I Never Knew: This was a French song and Paul Anka took the tune and rewrote lyrics in English (not a translation of the original) and created a song that has become an icon of American culture.
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What brings me joy lately?
*Spinning 45s on my turntable (I have some Paul Anka)
*Finding Christmas cookies in the freezer
*Free Business Class upgrade on a 12-hour flight
*Sleep
*Seeing the sparkles in the snow
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| Giggle/Groan |
 Timing is everything, in life and in the publishing world.... |
| Picks this week |
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Flick Pick - David & Layla
Can love between a Jewish guy and a Muslim gal work? Yep. True story.
Book Pick - The World According to Mister Rogers
~ Important Things to Remember from Fred Rogers
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| Pics from the internet |
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| Birthday Love |
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HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY BIRTHDAY WISHES TO:
Shelly Helmes
Baby Noah -1st
Nita Lasky
Doug Larson
Meg French
Patricia Loya
Zachary Meredith
Brooke Paganini
Connie Sychowski
(Send in your birthday. Each month a name is drawn for a JOY prize delivered via snail mail.)
DECEMBER JOY WINNER:
Kathryn Albright
(I have not yet met Kathyrn in the flesh, but I know that she is a nurse and has written two Harlequin historical romances! Check out www.kathrynalbright.com)
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| Quote Junkie |
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There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you heard their story.
~Mary Lou Kownacki
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| Sage Advice |
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Never pass up an opportunity to pee.
~Adair Lara, Normal is Just a Setting on the Dryer
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| Inquiring Minds |
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The question:
Christmas Lights~~~
>Unplug already people!
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>Let em shine Let em shine Let em shine!
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| Wise |
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"Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person. Sometimes, all it takes is one kind word to nourish another person. Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many."
~The World According to Mister Rogers
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| Wit |
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Kelly's newspaper column - Travel opens hearts, minds
Kelly's blog for healthyrockford.com - Do you love your life?
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What tickles Bill? Perhaps the Tiger/Obama magazine cover.
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| Word Nerd |
Mendacious (adjective)
Pronunciation: [men-'dey-sh�s]
Definition: A Latinate form for "lying" or "untruthful."
Usage: It would be impolite or downright rude to call someone a "lying crook," but the Latinate equivalent "mendacious offender" could soften the effect. While "mendacious" is an adjective, it has nominal counterpart mendacity "untruthfulness."
Suggested Usage: If you want to impress the person you are calling a fraud, you might say, "You are so charming in your mendacity that no one really minds," or "You are so charming that no one really minds your mendacious fairy-tales."
-Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
FYI, Joy Spreaders, I would never be mendacious with you. |
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I've got high apple-pie-in-the-sky hopes.
joyfully,
xxkelly
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Kelly Epperson
kel_epperson@yahoo.com
PO Box 2324 Loves Park IL 61131
Member AATH - Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor
Member NSNC - National Society of Newspaper Columnists |
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| JOY |
New book, 365 Days of Joy, is in the works and coming soon. $20
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| When LIfe Stinks, It's Time to Wash the Gym Clothes (collection of newspaper columns) $10
Shirts ~C'est Bon and JOY*US $10 |
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