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The 06/18/13 Joy Jar

18 Jun

 

Moi doesn’t even know if it legal, not that the people who put posters or show bills on telephone poles really care. Some are colorful. Others just give facts, just the facts. These posters or show bills chronicle the life of a city from lost pets, to yard sales, to band dates, to political statements, to campaign ads and more. These bits of information, whether wanted or not are just signs of life. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are the urban street posters.

“I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed, deconstructed, or forced to bear the burden of metaphor, symbol, omen, or portent.”
Diane Schoemperlen, Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship

“The sign said don’t do it, so naturally I did it. Signs are always saying stuff in a silent way.
 Writing is a way to say something in a silent way. 
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Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

“Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with a personal life. One does not write with one’s ego, one’s memory, and one’s illnesses. In the act of writing there’s an attempt to make life something more personal, to liberate life from what imprisons it…There is a profound link between signs, the event, life, and vitalism. It is the power of nonorganic life, that which can be found in a line of a drawing, a line of writing, a line of music. It is organisms that die, not life. There is no work of art that does not indicate an opening for life, a path between the cracks. Everything I have written has been vitalistic, at least I hope so, and constitutes a theory of signs and the event.”
Gilles Deleuze

“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.”
Raymond Salvatore Harmon, BOMB: A Manifesto of Art Terrorism

Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson

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The 06/17/13 Joy Jar

16 Jun

 

Music is its own special type of worship, but the hymn takes the spiritually to a whole other level. Some hymns like ‘Amazing Grace’ or ‘Ava Maria’ can bring people to tears. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are hymns.

“A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.”
Max Lucado, Next Door Savior

“It is natural to speak of hymns as “poems,” indiscriminately, for they have the same structure. But a hymn is not necessarily a poem, while a poem that can be sung as a hymn is something more than a poem. Imagination makes poems; devotion makes hymns. There can be poetry without emotion, but a hymn never. A poem may argue; a hymn must not. In short to be a hymn, what is written must express spiritual feelings and desires. The music of faith, hope and charity will be somewhere in its strain.”
Hezekiah Butterworth, The Story of the Hymns and Tunes

“The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords”

George Herbert

“And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.”

Mark 14:26

You know when you’re young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
Andy Griffith

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The 06/16/13 Joy Jar

15 Jun

Some folk are literally tumbleweeds. They live their life blowing in the wind. The finger must be raised to guage the direction of the wind before a decision can be made. Others know who they are and what they believe. They have a foundation rooted in principle. Healthy body, healthy mind, healthy values = It’s all good Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the firm foundation of strong values.

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein

“Never compromise your values.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Values aren’t buses… They’re not supposed to get you anywhere. They’re supposed to define who you are.”
Jennifer Crusie

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
José Ortega y Gasset

“Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
Aesop

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
Roy Disney

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The 06/15/13 Joy Jar

15 Jun

 

Sometimes, the simplest things are simply the best. An example is buttered toast. If one wants to make embellish buttered toast, just add jelly. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is buttered toast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It’s not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
Naveen Andrews

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toast without butter is like a day without sunshine.

 

Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.”

 

Julia Child

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?”

 

Stephen Wright

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you’re in the game long enough, you’re going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you’ll be toast.
Alan K. Simpson

 

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The 06/14/13 Joy Jar

14 Jun

This country is at one of those junctures that occur periodically. Some in the 4th Estate have ceded their role as watchdogs to become lapdogs and not journalists. Today’s deposit in the ‘Joy Jar’ are those brave folk willing to practice the profession of journalism because they believe in ferreting out the truth.

Mathew Felling of CBS News lists the 10 Best Journalism Quotes:


Number 10:

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  • Oscar Wilde

    Number 9:

    Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Number 8:

    There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

  • Walter Lippmann

    Number 7:

    The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

  • Samuel Johnson

    Number 6:

    A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

  • Albert Camus

    Number Five:

    Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

  • Henry Anatole Grunwald

    Number Four: (Aka: Whenever you can think up a reason to bring up Grace Kelly, do it.)
    The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

  • Grace Kelly

    Number Three:

    News is something someone wants suppressed. Everything else is just advertising.

  • Lord Northcliff

    Number Two:

    Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Number One: (You’ll thank us for this at the picnic.)

    A news story should be like a mini skirt on a pretty woman. Long enough to cover the subject but short enough to be interesting.

  • Anonymous, linked to a Texas newspaper editor

© 2007 CBS Interactive Inc.. All Rights Reserved.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500486_162-3013288-500486.html

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The 06/13/13 Joy Jar

13 Jun

Moi was walking down the street and she noticed all the wheels. They were on buses, cars, bicycles, scooters, and carts. The wheels make it easier to get from here to there and to carry loads. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the wheel.

 

 

 

 

“Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much…the wheel, New York, wars and so on…while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man…for precisely the same reason.”

Douglas Adams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”

Dave Barry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 “The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, HE was a genius.”

Sid Cesar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it,”

Ursula K. LeGuin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it.”

Anthony J. De Angelo

 

 

 

 

 

 “The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, “I shall today be uppermost”

Confucius

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The wheel is come full circle.”

William Shakespeare

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The 06/12/13 Joy Jar

11 Jun

 

Yesterday’s ‘Joy Jar’ was to give thanks for being human. Humans have a wide variety of characteristics from they walk with Angels to satan wouldn’t have them in the family because they are so evil. The best human qualities form a tapestry called humane. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the quality of being humane.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison

One can not be just if one is not humane.
Luc de Clapiers

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
Jef Raskin

One can not be just if one is not humane.
Luc de Clapiers

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The 06/11/13 Joy Jar

11 Jun

 

Moi went to a NASA exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle which looked at the history and importance of the space station and space exploration. A major reason some support space exploration is that they want to plant humans as a species all over the universe. That got moi thinking about whether there is something unique about being human. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the quality of being human.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
C. JoyBell C.

“The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simple because the person living it had been doing so for a long time. Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.”
Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

“This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.”
David Benioff, City of Thieves

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I am not a human being; I am a human becoming.

Unknown

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The 06/10/13 Joy Jar

10 Jun

 

Moi had the great honor and the pleasure to preview the NASA exhibit, Destination: Station at Pacific Science Center in Seattle. The exhibit is totally awesome and does a good job of explaining the role of the Space Station in exploration. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is space exploration.

“Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there’s no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.”
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.”
J.D. Bernal, The world, the flesh & the devil;: An enquiry into the future of the three enemies of the rational soul

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn’t been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do—to the benefit of us all.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Reaching For the Stars: America’s Choice,
Natural History Magazine, April 2003

I have no doubt that Christians can support the exploration and use of space. The so-called “science commission” in Genesis 1:28 certainly seems to apply to any part of the material creation which God places within man’s reach.

Rev. Paul A. Bartz, Communications Director, Bible-Science Newsletter, October 1990

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The 06/09/13 Joy Jar

9 Jun

 

Moi will be going to the ’30 Years of Japanese Fashion’ exhibit at Seattle Art Museum at the end of the month. To beef up her fashion chops moi went to the movie, ‘Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorfs’ which was a hoot and really showed the creativity of high fashion and those famous windows at Bergdorfs. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the creativity of high fashion.

“I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.”

Alexander McQueen

“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.”

Diana Vreeland

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

Yves Saint-Laurent

“Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.”

Gianni Versace

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

Coco Chanel

“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.”

Audrey Hepburn

“I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.”

Yves Saint Laurent

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
Oscar Wilde

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