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The 06/28/13 Joy Jar

28 Jun

Hot weather in Seattle is reletive in comparison to the rest of the country. We don’t have the 110+ weather of las Vegas or Phoenix, but 88 in Seattle makes folk start to complain. Today was the first hot day in Seattle and there promises to be, according to the weather minds, several more days to follow. Even hot and uncomfortable days have their place, they make one appreciate those days when it is not too cold, not too warm, not too rainy, and not too cloudy. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are hot summer days which make one appreciate perfect temperature days.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
St. Francis of Assisi

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
Ada Louise Huxtable

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Jane Austen

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

Every summer has a story.

Unknown

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The 06/27/13 Joy Jar

27 Jun

Responsible fireworks are very beautiful. Every year Seattle has had a sponsored fireworks display at Lake Union on the Fourth of July. It;s beautiful and is attended by thousands of people who celebrate the holiday. This fireworks display is safe and san and can be viewed from many vantage points. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are those fireworks displays that are safe and sane.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
Maria Callas

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It’s always fun.
James Lafferty

Just a reminder that fireworks look even more amazing when you’re not constantly checking your iPhone.

Unknown

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Neil Armstrong

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The 06/26/13 Joy Jar

26 Jun

 

Moi has several in her house. You probably have several in your house. They are in the workplace, at the mall -they are everywhere. They are on the street. Sometimes people want to kick the can down the street. You really don’t notice them until you are ready to deposit garbage or trash or they have been knocked over and their contents spilled. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the garbage can.

“God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage can of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess them up”

Lillian Hellman

“A work desk is a garbage can with drawers”

Unknown

“In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.”

Woody Allen

“If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.”

Unknown

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein

“I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.”

Beverly Sills

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The 06/25/13 Joy Jar

25 Jun

 

Moi had the great pleasure of attending ’30 Years of Japanese Fashion’ at the Seattle Art Museum. It was simply a stunning show. The fact that 100 pieces of exquisite haute couture were exhibited in one place for the public to see was amazing. That is what museums do, they amaze us with things few of us could acquire and many of us would never see. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are museums.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
Jerry Saltz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
Henry James

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart’s compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.”
Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.”
Richard Fortey, Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.” Chesterton, Gilbert K. on museums and galleries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

 

Edmond De Goncourt quotes 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

 

Pablo Picasso

 

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The 06/24/13 Joy Jar

24 Jun

 

Walking gives one a different perspective than riding in a car or on a bus. Walking through urban neighborhoods is particularly a fest for the eyes and the senses. One things than many urban neighborhood have is plenty of neon signs and lights. Some garish, some tasteful, but designed to make one look. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are urban neon signs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. 

 

James Thurber

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space.  It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe.  It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. 

 

Michael Strassfeld

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. 

 

Aaron Rose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. 

 

Sven Nykvist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“In their simplicity and directness [neon signage is] a kind of urban iconography with which we can identify on many levels. — Rudi Stern”
Philip Di Lemme, American Streamline: A Handbook Of Neon Advertising Design

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The 06/23/13 Joy Jar

23 Jun

Moi began the ‘Joy Jar’ project right after the Mayan end of the world thing went belly-up. This was a year-long experiment to find something to be grateful for every day. The ‘Joy Jar’ is half way through and moi is learning to ‘cultivate an attitude of gratitude.’ Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is an attitude of gratitude.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

 

“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”

Maya Angelou, Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us – and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him.

Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.”

― Thomas Merton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”

Meister Eckhart

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The 06/22/13 Joy Jar

22 Jun

 

Moi went for a long walk this afternoon and when she looked at the sky she saw a clue blue sky with white puffy clouds that looked like gigantic cotton balls sprinkled across the sky. These were friendly clouds. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are friendly clouds that look like gigantic cotton balls.

Clouds are God’s sneezes.

Ralph Wiggum

Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover

Napolean Hill

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Martin Luther

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them

William James

A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all–he’s walking on them.

Leonard L. Levensen

Measure not God’s love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

Richard Sibbes

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

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The 06/21/13 Joy Jar

21 Jun

 

Moi wants to accomplish a couple of things this summer. One a spend time writing and the other is to get healthy. Walking is not only great exercise, but it seems to stimulate one’s creativity. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the art of long walks.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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The 06/20/13 Joy Jar

20 Jun

 

Moi found this great little pot on sale. It is striped in hues of brown, gold, and orange. It is a happy little pot and let moi day again it was on sale. Moi will use it in the kitchen to store utensils. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is moi’s happy little pot.

“I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.”
Janet Fitch, White Oleander

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Bible, Romans 9:21

Said one among them: “Surely not in vain
My substance of the common Earth was ta’en
And to this Figure moulded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again.”
Omar Khayyam (“The Tent-Maker”),

All this of Pot and Potter–Tell me then,
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
Omar Khayyam (“The Tent-Maker”),

There’s a joy without canker or cark,
There’s a pleasure eternally new,
Tis to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of china that’s ancient and blue;
Unchipp’d, all the centuries through
It has pass’d, since the chime of it rang,
And they fashion’d it, figures and hue,

In the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
Here’s a pot with a cot in a park,
In a park where the peach-blossoms blew,
Where the lovers eloped in the dark,

Lived, died, and were changed into two
Bright birds that eternally flew
Through the boughs of May, as they sang;
‘Tis a tale was undoubtedly true
n the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
Andrew Lang, Ballade of Blue China


Turn, turn, my wheel! Turn round and round
Without a pause, without a sound:
So spins the flying world away!
This clay, well mixed with marl and sand,
Follows the motion of my hand;
For some must follow, and some command,
Though all are made of clay!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Keramos

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The 06/19/13 Joy Jar

19 Jun

 

Riding on the bus, moi looked at to what could have been a great sunset. Then the sky turned cloudy and the potential was lost. Still, sunsets are some of the most beautiful parts of the day. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are those beautiful sunsets that just take your breath away.

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”

Jo Walton

“The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.”
― Chris Evans

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.Bern Williams

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.”
G.K. Chesterton

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