I have spent the last few blogs on the subject of happiness,
and have concluded that I am not going to chase happiness.
I’m going to let it come to me. 
But I am seeking JOY. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Joy
are moments. And I decided I was named Joyce for a good reason. Joy is the first part of my name.
I had an epiphany this morning—that was that each day is a new opportunity. No big surprise there, but you know how it is, a concept can bounce around for years, it grows, it changes, it turns its back on us, it spits in our faces, it loves us, it evolves.
And one day we get it.
We CAN change the quality of the day. (According to Henry David Thoreau, changing the quality of the day is the highest of the arts.)
Perhaps that is the reason we have nights and slumber. In sleep we wander into the twilight of Neverland, we refresh, we can, if we choose, put a period at the end of yesterday’s sentence.
Although I have a habit of dragging the cares of yesterday, like a dead mule, into the new day.
Time to bury the mule.
".... Remember that
feeling as a child
When you awoke and morning smiled
It's time its time you felt, felt like that again
Come with me, leave your yesterdays, your yesterdays behind,
and TAKE A GIANT STEP OUTSIDE YOUR MIND!"
When you awoke and morning smiled
It's time its time you felt, felt like that again
Come with me, leave your yesterdays, your yesterdays behind,
and TAKE A GIANT STEP OUTSIDE YOUR MIND!"
---written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, sung by TAJ MAHAL
Read what Elizabeth Gilman (Eat, Pray Love) says about creating/art on http://www.thebestdamnwritersblogontheblock.blogspot.com