Live the Joy
JOY ~ Journey of You June 4, 2010 |
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Past joy droppings feed the soul.
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My thanks to Writer's Almanac for reminding me:
It was on this day in 1919 that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote, was passed by the United States Congress. Women across America voted in their first national election in November of 1920.
Words to Ponder~
I am woman.
Hear me. |
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... and when the evening comes, we smile,
so much of life ahead,
we'll find a place where there's room to grow
this joy stuff... we've only just begun
JOY = Journey of YOU; the Carpenters agree...(see the letters in this video?)
(Hmm, I think this Halloween, instead of Lady Gaga, I'll go as Karen Carpenter ;)
why am I in a Carpenters mood? that's a shrugger. |
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"When you finally allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it, you will find you dance with everything." - Emanmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
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| Picks this week |
Book Pick - your joy journal
Flick Pick - Iron Jawed Angels
Mary Poppins
Your JOY assignment this week:
LAUGH!
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| Never underestimate the power of a tiara | |
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"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy."
-Mother Teresa
Scatter joy.
thank you, MG in SC, for the quotes. and your friendship. |
| Birthday Love | |
HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY BIRTHDAY WISHES TO:
CHERYL OLMSTEAD
EMILY OLMSTEAD
LORI KOEPP
AND to
ALL who are celebrating this week/month/year
(Send in your birthday. Each month a name is drawn for a JOY prize delivered via snail mail.)
MAY WINNER = SUSAN RICHARDSON!!!
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Did you know....
International Happiness Day is 10 July 2010 |
| Beauty's where you find it | |
A couple weeks ago, I opened the joy letter with the line, "Love can't change the weather."
One reader, Mary from Arizona, wrote:
It's very timely that your topic is weather today as my husband and I are in Estes Park, CO, for 2 weeks. We like to take our favorite hikes but aren't able to do it because over a foot of snow has fallen. That being said, instead of stewing about what we can't do this time, we find JOY in the gorgeousness of seeing the mountains and trees so snow-covered. It's Winter Wonderland in May!
THANK YOU MARY. We have the choice of how we react to external circumstances, even Mother Nature.
"He who smiles rather than rages is always stronger." - Japanese proverb |
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"The soul grows by subtraction, not addition."
- Henry David Thoreau |
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Law of the Garbage Truck
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.
We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was truly friendly.
So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck."
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.
As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally.
Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.
(Thanks, Nancy and Leland Otte, for sharing!) |
| JOY Engagements | |
June 3 -Freeport Zion Church Seniors Young at Heart
June 17 - Rockford Chamber Women's Expo
June 30 - CLRC Seniors
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is headband dinglyboppers!
JoMama waiting for Young at Heart Parade, Loves Park, IL
THE LOOT WE PASSED OUT! (We went thru bags and bags and bags (and bags) of candy!
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UPCOMING JOY EVENTS |
**JOY Dance Party!**
FOR EVERYONE!!
(tentative Oct 1)
**JOY One-Day Retreat**
OCTOBER 9
**Joy: A Luncheon**
**Meet your Muse on Lago Maggiore**
A week of creative expression in northern Italy
Poetry, Prose, & Joy
May 5 -11, 2011
(Details coming soon!)
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HAPPINESS CLUB, LOVES PARK, IL
(first Thursday every month)
You can learn how to be happy!
NEXT MEETING:
Thursday, July 1
6:30 - 8:15 pm
North Suburban Library, 6340 N. Second St., Loves Park
June Program was Roni Golan, Laughter leader. OH MY! We laughed and laughed through various laughter exercises --FYI: "fake" laughter can become "real" laughter.
Roni, an artist and hypnotherapist, and laughter instructor, can be reached at
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| Word Nerd | |
transmogrify \trans-MOG-ruh-fy\, transitive verb:
To change into a different shape or to transform, often with bizarre or humorous effect.
I'm thinking The Hulk.... or the Joy Fairy. |
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Spread the word! Let's build an army of JOY Spreaders! | | parting shot...
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
~Roseanne Barr
I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped! ~Author Unknown
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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 AHA - American Happiness Association
Founder - Happiness Club of Loves Park, IL
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
(hmm, how long can I keep saying "soon"?) |
| 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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