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Live the Joy
JOY ~ Journey of You May 20, 2011 |
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Past joy droppings feed the soul.
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JOY every week!
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Ancora Imparo.
That's Italian for I am still learning. The story goes that Michelangelo was in his 80s, lying on his back on the scaffolding, painting the Sistine Chapel. In his sketches, scribbled in the margin was the phrase "ancora imparo." If a master can still be learning all throughout life, what a lesson that is for us.
I use that phrase in many presentations and I would bet I have talked about it here in the joy letter from time to time too. I know that I am still learning, and I am grateful. My brain and my body and my spirit still have capacity for learning.
Research shows that adult brains do indeed create new pathways, so never say never. Learning a new language or how to play an instrument or crocheting, is entirely possible. More importantly is the self-discovery that happens.
Don't give up on yourself. Learning new habits, like how to laugh more, how to roll with the flow, how to lighten up, can be acquired too. Seeing the world with new eyes is an option available to you, if you so choose.
If ever a season were more appropriate for new growth, new beauty, new budding possibilities, let it be this spring. If you need a new thought to get you started, make it simple. Start every day with: Today, I am going to pay attention.
Words to Ponder:
I am still learning.
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What brings me JOY lately...
* all the cards and gifties we received. my heart overfloweth. thank you!
* all the photos taken we have yet to view: wedding, dance party, honeymoon. there are thousands!
* May 1 was indeed glorious. There were two hawks circling the labyrinth during our ceremony which I'm told is unique. Thank you, animal spirits!
* Our kids. Our parents. Our families. Our friends. Our acquaintances. Our future friends.
* Our shirts that light up and pulse to the music. If you left the dance party early, hopefully the photos will show the fun.
* Our boys who got the dance party started.
* Shared dreams.
Reminder:
Send me your JOY!
The compilation book will be little bits of joy and wisdom from me and YOU. Keep 'em coming.
Deadline October 1.
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It has been an entire year of keeping the Joy Journal that we learned about in Happiness Club. Mine is not a typical diary with lenthy entries. Rather, I tried to find something good or interesting about each day and write it down. The "small miracle" in each day and there is always at least one if you look.
Most entries are just a few short lines. But I have an entry for EVERY SINGLE DAY the past year! Now that may be my OCD kicking in, but I think it is pretty amazing to know that even if I looked back on the past year and found it not so great, or uneventful, still I found 365 positive things at least in it! Awesome!!
Cindy Guentherman
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"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing
more to patient attention than to any other talent."
-- Sir Isaac Newton
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| Birthday Love |
HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY BIRTHDAY WISHES TO: PAUL WENGER RILEY EPPERSON VINCE BREWER JIM OLMSTEAD SANDY NUGENT VALERI DECASTRIS JILL BLOOM TESSA KOEPP SUSAN RICHARDSON TERRI PARK NILS SANDSTROM JULIE LARSON DANNY DONUTS JOYCE CULBREATH EARL HENSLIN (author of Your Brain on Joy) SHERRY STRUVEN MAAVICH DOTTIE NAXERA JASMINE SIMMONS - SWEET 16!  HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY TO ANYONE ELSE WITH A BDAY THIS WEEK/MONTH, THIS YEAR, LAST YEAR! **IF I MISSED YOU, SEND TO ME AGAIN. I'M SYSTEM UPGRADING AND DON'T WANT TO MISS YOU!**
(Send in your birthday. Each month a name is drawn for a JOY prize delivered via snail mail.)
APRIL BIRTHDAY WINNER: MICKY MILLER
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| SAGE ADVICE |
"I learned that inspiration does not always come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time. "
Brenda Ueland
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| All a girl needs: A HBM (Hair Brush Microphone) | |
Since we are in "still learning mode," how about a visit to Sesame Street?
Barbara Grapstein, NY, Gold Coast Giggles, sent this one along. Think Happy Thoughts.
Even if you find Muppets annoying, the message that the thoughts you think are up to you is still right on.
Elmo is not really HBM material. I need a little Karen Carpenter. Only Yesterday.
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| HAPPINESS CLUB | |
First Thursday of every month --- JUNE 2
All are welcome. If you have been wondering about H Club, come check it out.
Free. Fun. Food for thought.
HAPPINESS CLUB, LOVES PARK, IL
6:30 - 8:00 pm
North Suburban Library, 6340 N. Second St., Loves Park
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A short video clip of me and H Clubber Marie chatting up the H Club!
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| WORD NERD | |
afflatus \uh-FLAY-tuhs\, noun:
A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.
dictionary.com
Afflatus is from Latin afflatus, past participle of afflare, "to blow at or breathe on," from ad-, "at" + flare, "to puff, to blow." Other words with the same root include deflate (de-, "out of" + flare); inflate (in-, "into" + flare); souffl�, the "puffed up" dish (from French souffler, "to puff," from Latin sufflare, "to blow from below," hence "to blow up, to puff up," from sub-, "below" + flare); and flatulent.
I just had an afflatus. No need to say "excuse me." |
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-When LIfe Stinks, It's Time to Wash the Gym Clothes
-365 Days of Joy
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Keep learning.
live joyfully,
xx kelly
parting shot...
"Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time."
Asha Tyson
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Member AATH - Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor Member AHA - American Happiness Association Member NNC - National Society of Newspaper Columnists Founder - Happiness Club of Loves Park, IL Had long fingernails for two weeks while on vacation |
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