I am listening to the delightful sound of the icecream truck that recently discovered my neighborhood. Like Pavlov’s dog, when I heard the peals of the mechanical bells chirping that happy tune, I ran barefoot out the door with a big wad of cash. Dashing across the parking lot, I was the very first customer [...]
Joy on Wheels
July 25, 2008
Hold Fast to Joy*
July 24, 2008
Hold Fast to Joy*
Hold fast to Joy
Were joy to die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to joy
Were joy to go
Life is a barren field
Covered in snow.
* Homage to Langston Hughes’ Dreams
Joy seeds make Joy fruits
April 29, 2008
17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. [...]
Indescribable Joy
April 24, 2008
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy, if I could say how much”
– Shakespeare
” The Way that can be spoken of is not the true Way.” — Lao Tze, Tao Te Ching
To honor his birthday, on April 23rd, I imagined posting a killer quote from Shakespeare on the topic of [...]
Let joy kill you!
April 18, 2008
JOY by Carl Sandburg
Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere–
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.
“Joy kills man” is a gripping [...]
Love, the turner of men’s Hearts
April 12, 2008
If a majority of people experienced daily multiple orgasms — in a free, fun & healthy way — it would end warfare, eliminate most social conflicts and resolve a host of other personal & planetary issues. A mass outbreak of orgasmic ecstasy would radically transform our world socially, economically, politically with more ease, grace & [...]
JoyVolution
April 8, 2008
joy
noun
1. great happiness: feelings of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated or spiritual kind
2. something that brings happiness: a pleasurable aspect of something or source of happiness
volution
(və-lū’shən) noun
1. A turn or twist about a center; a spiral.
2. Zoology. One of the whorls of a spiral gastropod shell.
joyvolution
1. A conscious choice to turn [...]
