funny how fallin' feels like flyin'

 

~Fallin' & Flyin' from Crazy Heart soundtrack 

 

 

 

 

 SOLVEJ JORDAHL

 GLORIA LAMB

PAT HOFKAMP

MEL SCHEIDEGGER

GREG PAINTER

LAURA ENDRES

PAT NOEL

ALEXANDRIA MUNGER

 

AND WHOEVER ELSE IS CELEBRATING THIS WEEK

 

 

~Thornton Wilder 

 

(Send in your birthday. Each month a name is drawn for a JOY prize delivered via snail mail.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am larger, better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.   ~Walt Whitman

 

 

 

March 13-21 = IRELAND

 

March 30 - St. Bernadette's Seniors - Living in JOY

 

 

 

 

 

  

APRIL 1 @ 7 PM-8:30 PM

NORTH SUBURBAN LIBRARY

6340 N. SECOND ST.,  LOVES PARK IL 

Want to live longer, have less stress, and experience better relationships? Choose to be happy. Even if you were not born with the "joy gene," you can LEARN how to be happy. Happiness does not have to be fleeting. It can be sustained throughout your whole life, no matter your challenges or circumstances.  

Kelly Epperson (writer/speaker/joy fairy), member of AHA (American Happiness Association) and AATH (Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor), states Happiness Clubs have been in existence across the US for nearly 20 years. The Loves Park chapter is the first in Illinois. "You will learn tools and tips to use to cultivate inner happiness that lasts even when external events throw you a curveball. Happiness Clubs are a place for happy people and wannabe-happy people to learn the science of happiness. Yes, you can TEACH happiness techniques, just like teaching someone how to hit a golf ball. Some folks are naturals; for some, it takes a little practice."

The first meeting is Thursday, April 1 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm at the North Suburban Library community room (6340 N. Second St., Loves Park). Meetings are free ($5 donation requested to cover room rental, refreshments, handouts) and open to all. "This is not a religious thing or a dating thing. It is simply an opportunity to enrich your life." For more information, contact Kelly Epperson at 815-871-7864 or kel_epperson@yahoo.com.

 

 Simply a fric-in fun word to say.

 

From Liz Gobin: 

(who warns this may be too risque for joy letter) 

I work with second graders and we have a LOT of laughs .... last week we were reading Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (who has amazing solutions to people's problems) a boy's parents came to her for a solution for their son Dick, who was extremely selfish (something all students can relate to)  ... we read all about what a selfish boy Dick was and all the ways he displayed this nasty habit ... Mrs. Piggle Wiggle comes up with ingenious solution ... at the end of the story we always talk about "the big idea" - what did the author want us to learn from this story? ... one little boy blurted out "Don't be a selfish Dick!"

 

 

From Nan Mudloff: 

 

 

 

 

 

A grasshopper can leap over obstacles 500 times its own height. In relation to its size, it has the greatest jumping ability of all creatures.

 

watching David Lee Roth jump is campy fun too.

 

 

or Hugh Grant shakin his tush in Love, Actually (to Pointer Sisters' JUMP)

 

 

or Evel Knievel's first jump on Wide World of Sports from 1967

Life's a metaphor

then you die.

 

~John Lehman, SHORTS 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise

 

 

 

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts
into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and
make his dreams come true.
--Napoleon Hill