The National Day of Joy 2023
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Joy is a feeling of immense pleasure and happiness which results in rejoicing. It is also that feeling of well being, fortune, or success by getting some of those things you most desire. I suppose it can be summed up as a feeling of delight, happiness, or felicity and ...
Joy is the nickname my late stepfather gave to my mother.
Today is The National Day of Joy. It is marked on the last Wednesday of June each year ... making it June 28th in 2023. The National Day of Joy began in 2019 under the auspices of Comfort Keeper who are a company of caregivers for senior citizens.
It is said that joyfulness in senior citizens is essential. Personally, I think it helps those of all ages AND ...
I suppose some of us were meant to be excluded.
I try to observe and be grateful for "the small things" in life that typically bring joy. However, in actuality I rarely pause to smell the roses.
I suppose I feel that I am too busy otherwise and it will just have to wait. About the only thing that really brings me joy anymore is a good sketch or a finely tuned phrase in the blog ... but heck — this is also the sum total of what I do anymore.
I remember days into which were much more diversely involved.
So regardless of your situation I hope you get each and every moment of joy you can squeeze into your remaining years. I'm trying to do the same.