Find Your Joy
JOY ~ The Journey of You January 22, 2010 |
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JOY keeps you limber.
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Chapped lips? Check. Rough fingertips? Check. Static in my hair? Check. It must be winter in the midwest.
When the weather screws up my plans, I can get slightly miffed, but in general, I am not a winter hater. The fog the other night left the trees looking like something from a fairy tale. Sparkly icy crystal covered branches are magical to the eye.
For those of you who despise Mr. Frosty, buck up. Winter does not last forever. Appreciate the beauty from your window and put another log on the fire.
Words to Ponder~
From Pooh -
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts."
(Thanks, Nancy Stacy)
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| Lyrics to love |
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Dreams,I have dreams,
When I'm awake
When I'm asleep
(Can unrequited love be joyful? Um, not exactly. I just dig this song.)
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What brings YOU joy lately?
* Sassy blonde highlights in my hair (Melinda Pope, Okemos, Michigan)
* Cup of hot chocolate with big marshmallows! (Chris Withrow, Illinois)
* Planning the next trip to Italy: a magnificent spot on Lake Maggiore near the Swiss border (Deb McKew, Georges Mills, New Hampshire)
* Doing dessert portion for progressive dinner: Orange-scented Chocolate Cake with candied blood oranges, Mixed Nut Tart, Lemon Meringue Tart, Linzer Torte w/Raspberry Jam and an English Trifle (Elaine Halbardier, Eden Prairie, Minnesota)
* Seeing a dog riding in a car; their little faces are so cute (Monetta Young, Ashton, IL)
* Conference Champs, Varsity Bowling (Tyler Epperson, Loves Park, IL)
* San Miguel Poetry Week in San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico - and staying over for 5 days in the city of Guanajuato. Speak of JOY! (Wilda Morris, Bolingbrook, IL)
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| Picks this week |
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Flick Pick - The Reader
Book Pick - The Lady and the Little Dog by Anton Chekov
or any other classic read to Kate Winslet by Ralph Fiennes
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| Birthday Love |
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HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY BIRTHDAY WISHES TO:
JOEL CHAMBERLAIN
KRISTIN ROSA
HALEY HASENSTEIN
(I'm so happy I could pee.)
(Send in your birthday. Each month a name is drawn for a JOY prize delivered via snail mail.)
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| Quote Junkie |
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As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ~ James Lane Allen
(thanks, JimJamesSally, for this quote) |
| Sage Advice |
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Ciro di Pers, 17th-century poet,
Calendars ... do little more than synchronize us with the rest of society. ... We cannot do without these devices, which in a manner of speaking help us pay what we owe to Caesar, but there is no reason why we cannot keep one calendar for Caesar and another for ourselves. At best this subversive calendar should ignore the usual pattern of weeks and months, reflecting instead the homogenous and coherent flow of time, the natural similarity of one day to another. ... Leaving schedules and obligations to the conventional calendar, we should consecrate our own to a more internal dynamic: to essential outlays of vital energy-our growth, achievement, pleasure, and love.
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(Thanks, Nova Quigley, for sharing.) |
| Inquiring Minds |
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The question was:
Homemade spaghetti sauce or sauce from a jar???
Early results were all in favor of homemade and I was feeling like a schmucko for being the only one who used sauce from a jar. However, I am not alone. There are others, bless you, who start with a jar and spice it up on their own. BUT the winner is
HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI SAUCE.
Italian grandmothers everywhere can breathe easy. The world has not gone to hell in a handbasket. Or in a jar.
TODAY'S INQUIRY:
Movies at the theater
or
Movies at home
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| Gigs |
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January - Finding Joy; Program/Activity Directors, Senior Centers
February 4 - Joy on the Job; Rockford Memorial Hospital, Perionatal Network
February 8 - Finding Joy; Center for Learning in Retirement
February 12 - Finding Joy; Park Tower
February 20 - Write Your Personal Story, Elgin Community College
Kelly's newspaper column - New year, new adventures, new attitudes
Kelly's blog for healthyrockford.com - No one has ever died from looking like an idiot
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"More people fail for lack of encouragement, than for any other reason."
~Ruth Bell Graham
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Three rednecks were working up on a cell phone tower: Cooter, Ronnie and Donnie. Cooter slips, falls off the tower and is killed instantly. As the ambulance takes the body away, Ronnie says, 'Well, someone should go tell his wife.
Donnie says, 'I'm good at that sensitive stuff, I'll do it.' Two hours later, he comes back carrying a case of Budweiser.
Ronnie says, 'Where did you get that beer, Donnie?'
'Cooter's wife gave it to me,' Ronnie replies.
'That's unbelievable, you told the lady her husband was dead and she gave you beer?'
'Well, not exactly', Donnie says. 'When she answered the door, I said to her, "you must be Cooter's widow." She said, 'You must be mistaken. I'm not a widow.' Then I said, 'I'll bet you a case of Budweiser you are.'
Rednecks are good at sensitive stuff.
(Thanks, Mavis Queen of Email Kerr)
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| Word Nerd |
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Bonanza (noun)
Pronunciation: [b�-'n�n-z�]
Definition: (1) An unexpectedly rich pocket of ore in a mine, a mother lode; (2) an unexpectedly great supply of anything, as to find a beach with a bonanza of sea shells.
Usage: Unlike the Cartwright boys of the Bonanza show on US TV, today's word stands alone as a lexical orphan-it has no family of nouns, verbs, or adjectives to defend it in times of need.
Suggested Usage: The California Gold Rush in the middle of the 19th century was the source of today's word because it saw a remarkable number of mining bonanzas. But the word has now spread the English-speaking world around: "After smoking Lucky Strikes for 20 years and hitting nothing, Digger Dieppe finally struck a modest bonanza in the outback." Now the word is used to refer to any bounty: "Hernando found in the old prospector a bonanza of reasons for not quitting his job to look for gold in Australia."
Etymology: Today's word is Spanish bonanza "fair weather, prosperity, success" unadulterated. It comes from Medieval Latin bonacia "calm sea," based on Latin bonus "good."
-Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
We also used to have the steakhouse, Bonanza, just down the road from Ponderosa.
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| Secretly joyful |
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| Regrets, I've had a few... |
| but then again, too few to mention.
I regret not including this clip in the recent MY WAY homage:
(Thanks, Pat Liddell, you rock.) |
| "The only good thing about being wounded in the buttocks..." |
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Ice cream
I hope even non-You Tube junkies can spare 50 seconds for ice cream.
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| The only good thing about being a You Tube junkie... |
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I learned there is an Ice Cream and Cake song/dance.
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Ice cream and cake and cake; ice cream and cake and cake.....
joyfully,
xxkelly
Disneyland in April - the Biology of HOPE!
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| parting shot...
Don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter,
its roots are down there riotous.
Rumi
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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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