Tag Archives: Joy Jar

The 05/12/13 Joy Jar

11 May

 

The past few days in Seattle have been glorious with sun and pleasant temperatures. Rain is predicted to start tomorrow and last for the next several days. A Seattle rain cleans the air and plumps up the skin. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the Seattle rain which cleans the air.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller

“It ain’t no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.”

Alice Caldwell Rice

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The 05/11/13 Joy Jar

10 May

 

Although the calendar still says Spring, moi took her winter coats to the cleaners, finally convinced that she probably won’t need them for the next couple of months. The past couple of days have been glorious and more than enough to whet one’s anticipation of Summer. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the anticipation of summer.

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
Yoko Ono

“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
Kellie Elmore

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

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The 05/10/13 Joy Jar

9 May

Some of the most intolerant folk are those who are attempting to persuade others to their particular view or cause. Many folk simply want to make others carbon copies of them. Apparently, deviation from their ideas makes them insecure, they don’t feel that they have been ‘accepted’ whatever that means. The Macmillan Dictionary defines tolerance:

the attitude of someone who is willing to accept someone else‘s beliefs, way of life, etc. without criticizing them even if they disagree with them

Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is true tolerance.

“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
Albert Einstein

“It’s an universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.”
Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.”
Timothy Keller

“If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”
Thomas Paine

“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair…the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”
Dorothy L. Sayers

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The 05/09/13 Joy Jar

9 May

 

Moi’s computer was down and out for several hours. Moi needed the rest. So, whatever. A computer these days is something one really notices when it is not there. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the return of moi’s computer.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
Louis Gerstner

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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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