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#joy

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Furthering

I was browsing and came across an independent jeweler who has been handmaking jewelry for 60+ years.

What a joy and a miracle it must be to have found your calling so early and continue to enjoy it (and the good health to continue doing it) for so long.

#Jewelry#Artisan#Joy
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Tom Bremer

Inciting Joy by poet and essayist Ross Gay explores incitements to experiencing #joy in topics from #skateboarding to #gardening to pop music to pick-up #basketball to creating a community orchard—a lot of life, some grieving, plenty of #humor, plus social commentary all mashed up in joyful observations. These thoughtful, thought-provoking essays are a thoroughly enjoyable read.

#BooksWorthReading #essays #RossGay #BloomingtonIndiana #Philadelphia
rossgay.net/inciting-joy

ROSS GAYInciting Joy — ROSS GAY
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Rozzychan

This has been on my feed for a long time and I never watched it, but I'm glad I did.
She's not the thinnest, or the most technical skater I have ever seen, but from the music (Donna Summer's Mac Arthur park) which got the audience clapping. To the relaxed attitude of someone who was said to have given up #skating and came back.

It was so nice to see someone have a VERY GOOD DAY.
#joy #gold
youtube.com/watch?v=tW-XnKjyku

YouTubeAlysa Liu brings the house down in Boston, wins figure skating world championship | NBC SportsBy NBC Sports
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astroPug

Today, I am thankful for good coffee, nice strangers, good friends and my excellent family.

I recommend gently annoying a family member today, like you did when you were a child. It’s also a kind of love language.

Only you know what annoys them most. Only they know your pet peeves.

That is love.

#Joy#GoodThings
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Fi

More random ramblings before I disappear into my bubble for the day.

I have loads of shitty things going on in my life just now, especially health wise, you all know that, I'm not exactly quiet about it 😉 The state of the world right now is terrifying, looking at the news its hard not to just give up and think what is the damn point. A relentless avalanche of fear and misery.

But.

I am still finding lots of good things. So here is a list, sort of.

1. Lots of bees and butterflies in the garden.

2. The trees are starting to bud again, everything is coming back to life after a long grey winter.

3. I have a bench to sit on and enjoy the brighter days (yes, I had to mention that again).

4. I got a flyer through the door yesterday for a garden centre, which allows me to get a free pack of bedding plants.

5. Despite being a short, fat, broken potato, I can still do the splits even if its a really bad idea - actually, maybe that one shouldn't be on the list of good things 😂

6. I have a roof over my head, food in the kitchen, a huge pile of books and lots of craft stuff to keep me busy.

7. I am lucky enough to have some wonderful friends, especially on here, just in case I haven't mentioned it, you lovely folks absolutely rock and get me through the shite times.

8. I have a theatre trip next week, while I have some apprehension about it, I am looking forward to being back in Glasgow for the day.

9. I still find the strength to giggle and be silly with the child each day, that right there is a damn good reason to keep going.

10. Its race week.

So many of the things listed are mundane, little things but they still give me a spark of joy. Moments of joy don't need to be huge things, they can just be those little things that make you pause and smile for a second. More than ever, I think we all need to find those moments.

Thank you, as ever, for reading my random thoughts, you may continue with your day 😊

#RandomThoughts#GoodThings#Joy
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mandy pants (she/her)

I love most of this quote, particularly the opening line "I've been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by." The allusions to God/spirituality are, for this atheist, beside the point when I'm taking what I need from this: a bump up in my faith in humanity whenever I notice these small gestures. Maybe you, too? #kindness #joy

A photo of a quote from another of my accounts else-web, Little Golden Notebook. It says: "I've been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say "bless you" when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. "Don't die," we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don't want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, "Here, have my seat," "Go ahead-you first" "I like your hat." - Danusha Laméris, Small Kindnesses"
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Coach Pāṇini ®

“#Data is the new oil, and we are witnessing the emergence of a new fossil fuel industry, that is extracting the #joy from creators.”
linkedin.com/posts/pierdr_i-se

www.linkedin.comI see a lot of excitement for the release of GPT-4o and I feel that… | Pierluigi Dalla Rosa | 30 commentsI see a lot of excitement for the release of GPT-4o and I feel that something isn't right and it hasn't been for some time. Developing your own artistic style is hard. Creativity isn't an algorithm. It's years of personal struggle, emotion, and unique human experience. Data is the new oil, and we are witnessing the emergence of a new fossil fuel industry, that is extracting the joy from creators. A few years back, I wrote an article about the disregard for copyrights and the lack of recognition for artists, and while a person cannot take a screenshot of a movie they are watching, corporations can train and resell without compensation every bit on the internet. We need to recognize the harm, and in the meantime keep drawing in your notebook! https://lnkd.in/gCyduaD7 | 30 comments on LinkedIn
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