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The 05/08/13 Joy Jar

7 May

 

Moi likes lemonade, but thinking about it, the only time she drinks lemonade is when the weather gets warms. It is a warm Spring and Sunmer is on the way. Moi will be drinking plenty of lemonade, the REAL LEMONADE made with real lemons over the next couple of months. Today’s desposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is REAL LEMONADE.

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
Alfred Newman

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Ron White

LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE EXPERIENCED IN STAGES. Today’s lemons are the ingredients for tomorrows lemonade. What made you cry today will make you smile tomorrow. Today’s seeds will produce tomorrows harvest. Each day, each moment, God is working out His purposes in your life. TRUST HIM.

Unknown

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie

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The 05/07/13 Joy Jar

6 May

 

It was 87 today in Seattle and in terms of Seattle weather, it was approaching hot. Other parts of the country might say it was downright pleasant. Ice is wonderful on a warm day because it cools everything. Moi is grateful that ice is so readily available. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is ice.

“If I offer you a glass of water, and bring back a cup of ice, I’m trying to teach you patience. And also that sometimes you get ice with no water, and later you’ll get water with no ice. Ah, but that’s life, no?
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Jarod Kintz, Ah, but that’s life, no?

“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

“Like there’s actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.”
Steve Kluger

“ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they’re alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That’s the essence of ice, the role it plays.”
Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.”
Alec Wilkinson, The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

“You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks”

Eskimo Proverb

“If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance”

Unknown

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The 05/06/13 Joy Jar

5 May

Most of the folk in the South or any tropical region would refer to Seattle folk as weather wimps. We are in the midst of a Seattle ‘heat wave.’ That means the temperature is over 80 degrees Fahrenheit. If it gets close to 90, then many folk indigenous to the area complain. Transplants from warmer climes love it because it reminds them of the home they left. The great thing about the Puget Sound region is that after a while the natural air conditioning kicks in. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar is the rhythm of weather in the Puget Sound region.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor

“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat”

Lao Tzu

“Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.”

Chanakya

“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.”

Dante Alighieri

“HEAT, n.

Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he’s proving His point; but this I know –hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild.
_Crede expertum_ –I have seen them, child. –Gorton Swope”

Ambrose Bierce

“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers”

William Penn

“I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.”
Kim Hubbard

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The 05/05/13 Joy Jar

4 May

 

Moi saw Silver Linings Playbook and understood why it was so widely acclaimed. Besides a good story with great characters, it dealt with the subject of mental illness is a realistic and compassionate way. The movie was about HOPE. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are those inspirational movies which move our emotions and make us think about the way we think about life.

“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“It’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it.”
Roger Ebert

“It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”
Anthony Burgess

“Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.”
Arlaina Tibensky

A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney

“Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.”
Frank Capra

“Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They’re written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God.”
Efren Peñaflorida Jr.

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The 05/04/13 Joy Jar

3 May

 

The weather is heating up in Seattle. For many parts of the country that have vary defined seasons with high temperatures and high humidity, Seattle warm would be no big deal. Still, warm weather means a warm weather beauty routine. Tie the hair back to get it off one’s face. Moi went to the dollar store and got a bunch of hair ties in various colors. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are hair ties.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can’t put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you’re doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty isn’t seen throughout the makeup brushes or hair products; beauty is seen by those who choose not to see imperfections, and by those who you love and those who love you. Everyone is beautiful, but some people choose to hate on others for things they don’t like. Forget about those who make your days miserable, and live for those who make your life beautiful.

Unknown

I’m far from perfect. I could have a flatter stomach, clearer skin, whiter teeth, better hair, etc. But at least I don’t have an ugly heart.

Unknown

There’s many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare

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The 05/03/13 Joy Jar

2 May

 

The next few days will be ‘Seattle warm’ with temperatures headed toward the 80s. Time to drag out the bright colors and the summer clothes. Time to drag out the red shoes. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is moi’s red shoes.

“The red shoes dance her out into the street, they dance her over the mountains and valleys, through fields and forests, through night and day.”
-The Red Shoes 1948

“Every woman loves shoes, and every woman has a pair of red shoes, which is good news.”

Unknown

“Give a girl some red heels and she can conquer the world”
-Bette Midler

And whenever I’m in a situation where I’m wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn’t changed.

Jeremy Irons


“When in doubt, wear red.”

Bill Blass

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The 05/02/13 Joy Jar

1 May

 

Moi like many folks goes in cycles with trying to get healthy. A part of the push toward getting healthy is to take vitamins and to have a healthy outlook. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is a good multivitamin.

“Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!”
Steve Maraboli

“Gloves, shoes and vitamins, too.”

Rene Gayo

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”
Matt D. Miller

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson

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The 05/01/13 Joy Jar

30 Apr

 

May 1 is, well duh, May Day. In Seattle, that could mean peaceful demonstrations or anarchists can have their version of a party and cause as much chaos as possible. Moi, wondered if anarchists have little routines like brushing their teeth with toothpaste or is that considered a capitalist tool? Anyhow, moi thought about the fact that often one only thinks about toothpaste when the tube is low and is about to run out. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is toothpaste

Most entertainment is trying to get you. It’s tested, like toothpaste.
Albert Brooks

“The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ”significant literature” will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.”

Raymond Chandler

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don’t mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that’s the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.

John Steinbeck

“Social Media is like toothpaste: flavors, daily routine, doesn’t cost too much, there is always more.”

Lily Chatterjee

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The 04/30/13 Joy Jar

29 Apr

The past couple of days have been a pause in the march toward Spring. This evening is downright chilly and fleece is actually welcome. But, everything is changeable and the temperature should head toward the 70s in the next couple of days. These chilly days make us appreciate the warm which is coming our way. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are the chilly days which really make us appreciate Spring.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Mark Twain

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

Mark Twain

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

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The 04/29/13 Joy Jar

28 Apr

 

Moi plans to spend the summer writing. She has begun looking for a new desk chair and will get a comfortable desk chair. A clearly defined space for work is what she is planning. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is moi’s new desk chair which she will find sooner rather than later.

“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless”

May Sarton

“Every chair should be a throne and hold a king”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.”
Sherry K. Plummer

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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