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The 04/12/13 Joy Jar

11 Apr

Just as there is nothing like a dame, there is nothing like great musical theater. Moi saw ‘Jersey Boys’ which is the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. It is probably one of the best musicals ever written. It has a great story, great music, a love story, it is fast paced and taunt. The musical is a uniquely American art form. A really good musical has you singing as you leave the theatre. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the musical.

 

 

“Let’s sing our way out of this”
Isabel Fraire

 

 

“I chose and my world was shaken. So what. The choice might have been mistaken, but choosing was not.”
Stephen Sondheim “Sunday in the Park with George”

 

 

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

Kevin Richardson

 

 

I’ve never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

Trevor Nunn

 

 

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they’ll respond to it.

Carlisle Floyd

 

 

ll the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists.
Stephen Sondheim

 

I think there is no world without theatre.
Edward Bond

 

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt

 

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

 

I don’t think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We’ve got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Laura Benanti

 

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The 04/11/13 Joy Jar

10 Apr

Have you ever noticed when one is looking for the mate to a pair of socks that match an outfit you want to wear, one sock is missing from the sock drawer. Moi spent a long time looking for a sock and still couldn’t find the sock she was looking for. Today’s deposit in the ‘Joy Jar’ is finding matching socks when moi wants them.

 

“One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

 

 

“Granny always said finding justice was as tough as putting socks on a rooster.”
Jessica Maria Tuccelli, Glow

 

 

 

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

Unknown

 

 

 

“Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark”

Dave Barry

 

 

“I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.”

Rod Schmidt

 

 

You couldn’t get far in my socks, never mind walking a mile in my shoes.

Unknown

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The 04/10/13 Joy Jar

9 Apr

Moi is a ‘bus chick’ and rides public transpotation ALL OVER Seattle. She writes and watches people. The buses in the Puget Sound region are run by a variety of agencies and that may be the problem. Moi mostly rides METRO which gets her there. The gridlock which stymies Congress also stymies Washington government. Many folk who take the bus may see their service cut because of the way public transportation is financed in Washington. Many will consider buying some gas guzzling clunker and further crowd the road. The powers that be don’t undertand the value of a really good public transportation system. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is a public transportation system.

 

“You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system.”

Erol Ozan

 

“Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what’s right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else’s, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person’s private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment.”

Julie Wilson, Seen Reading

“The person whose problems are all behind them is probably a school bus driver”

Unknown

“A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it”

Unknown

“In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall”

Bob Dylan

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

Oprah Winfrey

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The 04/09/13 Joy Jar

8 Apr

The calendar says Spring, but it is chilly in Seattle and with the kind of damp clammyness that goes through you. Nothing is better on a cold Winter day or for that matter, a cold Spring day than chicken soup. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is chicken soup.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow

Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
Bennett Cerf

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere

Among hot beverages, we know of nothing better than leisurely sipping a bowl of steaming chicken soup

Unknown

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The 04/08/13 Joy Jar

7 Apr

Moi watched the Academy of Country Music Awards and she just loved it. Good music is well, just good music. Moi loves the American genres of country, jazz, and gospel. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the thoroughly American art form of country music.

 

What we don’t need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn’t.
Charley Pride

 

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that’s what country music is. It’s not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
Kenny Chesney

 

Country music is three chords and the truth.
Harlan Howard

 

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.
Little Richard

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.
Dionne Warwick

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Garth Brooks

 

 

 

 

 

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The 04/07/13 Joy Jar

6 Apr

Moi, like many, watched the FINAL FOUR game between Wichita State and Louisville. Both teams played their hearts out. Louisville had more points at the end, but what moi observed on the part of both teams was the ‘heart of a champion.’ Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the ‘heart of a champion.’

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.
Mike Singletary

“Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
Count Leo Tolstoy

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your
self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius

“What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge. . . and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done.”
Arland Gilbert

“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”
William Hazlitt, early 18th-century English essayist

“Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.”
Booker T. Washington

“A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.”
Albert Schweitzer, 20th-century German Nobel Peace Prize-winning mission doctor and theologian
“There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
Indira Gandhi, 20th-century Indian prime minister

“Things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln

 

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The 04/06/13 Joy Jar

5 Apr

One of the great joys of Spring is the season of the tulip. Tulips grow well in Washington in more colors and varieties than one can imagine. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the Tulip.

 

A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.

Marianne Williamson

But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter’s evening. I remember them.

Neil Gaiman

Here tulips bloom as theyare told; Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose.

Rupert Chawner Brooke

“The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.”

George T. Delacorte

 

“The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip.”

Samuel Johnson

Every person is like a single tulip. While they may blend when together, each one is special in its own light.

Daniella Kessler

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The 04/05/13 Joy Jar

4 Apr

April 4 was the 45th Anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When one talks of legacy, can one have a greater impact than Dr. King? Just because most of us will never have the stature of a Dr. King doesn’t mean that our lives are not important to making the world a better place. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the legacy of a life of contribution.

 

 

 

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.

 

 

It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

 

 

 

 

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
Shannon L. Alder

 

 

 

“The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.”
Tavis Smiley, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

 

 

 

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann

 

 

 

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Woodrow Wilson

 

 

 

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
William Shakespeare

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The 04/04/13 Joy Jar

4 Apr

For really quick good fast food nothing beats an egg roll and or fried rice. Tonight, an egg roll was on the menu for dinner. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are egg rolls and fried rice.

 

 

As long as there’s pasta and Chinese food in the world, I’m okay.
Michael Chang

 

 

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people .”
(Chinese Proverb)

 

 

“Coarse rice for food, water to drink, and the bended arm for a pillow – happiness may be enjoyed even in these.”
(Confucius)

 

 

“A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.”

Roald Amundsen (1872—1928).

 

 

 

“The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue.”
(Confucius)

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The 04/03/13 Joy Jar

2 Apr

Moi wears socks all winter to keep her feet warm. So, moi’s feet look like crab feet and need a pedicure. But, she was looking at her feet and admiring her toes. Actually, even without a pedicure they are attractive and moi is thankful that she has them. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar are moi’s toes.

 

 

“Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiority which calls for very special efforts of concealment. It is as if a man feared that he was too small and walked on his toes to make himself seem tall”

Alfred Adler

 

 

 

“People never add to their stature by treading on others’ toes”

Unknown

 

 

 

Fake friends are a vital piece of life. They keep you on your toes and teach you to never take the real ones for granted.

Ayjee Grogan

 

 

 

May your time be filled with relaxing sunsets, cool drinks and sand between your toes.

Unknown

 

 

 

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

“What a wonderful beautiful thing, to wiggle your toes.”

Dalton Trumbo

 

 

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Zi

 

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