… here’s my contribution today – the joys of life that never fail to put a smile on my face…
photos by Karen Molenaar Terrell
In the World’s Battle For Joy…
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Where Happiness Lives by Xander Terrell
Where Happiness Lives
Golden lights
And the deepest shadows
Smiling faces illuminated by life
A commodity where I come from
An inherent condition here
Where joy runs rampant
Like that one naked man who
In the presence of a police officer
Streaked across the town in the wake
Of the city-wide party
The officer laughing in mutual enjoyment
Before calling the man by his first name
As a friend and a neighbor
To get his shit together
– Xander Terrell, from Where Happiness Lives
(cover art by Xander Terrell)
Whatsoever things are lovely…
photos by Karen Molenaar Terrell
” …keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them.” – Mary Baker Eddy
You Are So Loved
Never separated from Life and joy -never isolated. Never unworthy of Good. Never outside Love. You are so loved.
Photo from Sauk Mountain in the North Cascades by Karen Molenaar Terrell.
Perfect Day Update :)
Follow-up on my last post:
I HAVE had a most perfect day… listened to Sarah MacLachlan singing Winter’s Night on the drive up to Bellingham, went for a really long walk along the bay, met some new friends (both canine and human), heard the last performer of the season singing at the Farmers’ Market, and right now I am sitting here, laughing and watching the Men in Black with the son (Will Smith just sent that superball thingy ping-ponging around the MIB offices.)
And here’s something I realized today – letting myself feel overwhelmed and depressed and hopeless because there is cruelty in the world, and violence, war, and famine – is not in any way going to help people who are struggling with cruelty, violence, war, and famine. There are things I CAN do to help – I can donate time and money; I can use what skills and talents I have to give my support to those struggling with oppression; and I can send out my joy and love into the collective consciousness of Good…
The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness and falls, never to rise. – Mary Baker Eddy
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- Mark, Matthew, and Nathan collecting Toys for Tots at the Fairhaven Haggen’s
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- moss encased in ice
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- Nathan, Keyla, and Ally at the Farmers Market
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- Richard singing at the Farmers Market
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- Edison on his first boardwalk walk
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- Kristen and her Glacier Glass art
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- Buddy
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- Christmas star
Beloved children, the world has need of you, —and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives. – from Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy
Joy to the World!
“The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.” – Robert Ingersoll
“I believe we’re on earth to delight each other, make each other laugh, and to infuse one another with His joy. Why not? What’ve we got better to do?” – Burt Rosenberg, Maryland
Stop complaining about the management of the universe. Look around for a place to sow a few seeds of happiness. – Henry Van Dyke
Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. – Mary Baker Eddy
Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you and be happy! – Anne Frank
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. – Scottish Proverb
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle
When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters. – Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms
You have a right to succeed in everything that it is right for you to do. – Edward A. Kimball
Out of the silent, silver moon,
Out of the mist of the Milky Way,
Out of the gleams of the sentry stars,
Out of the after-day –
Out of the wonderful songs of birds,
Out of the storm-wind’s whistling throes,
Out of the living green of fields,
Out of the bloom of the rose –
Out of the music laughter holds,
Out of the lips with kisses curled –
Boundless assurances everywhere,
Out of the joy of the world.
– Max Ehrmann
Merry Christmas and happy New Year and happy whatever-it-is you-celebrate-when-the-days-start-being-filled-with-more-light! May Life bless you with all good, and may your days be filled with laughter and love and peace and good will towards all creation, and infinite joy!
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