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Do You Want Happiness or Joy?

Happiness Unhappiness Joy Red Lamborghini Totaled Corvette with a $15,000 unpaid note A walk in the park Corner office in Petronas Towers Windowless basement office Contentment in all things Night

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What Is Joy?

Pretend you paid cash for your favorite vehicle—a Mercedes perhaps, or a Lamborghini, a Ford-150 maybe. You included every accessory you ever imagined–leather seats, a 22-speaker sound system, outside sound suppressing

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A Thankful Ditty

Blissful thoughts this ThanksgivingOf simple gifts for lively livingBurbling waters of mountain brooksShakespeare sonnets and classic booksHiking trails, city ParkHugs and kisses in the darkCotton candy at the Texas FairHaunted

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Today in My Eyes

I saw a younger friend today looking so nice and neat that I just had to say, “Just look at you. Sharp and spiffy. Blue blazer, paisley tie, shined shoes.

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A Weighty Challenge

This summer I went to Joseph A. Bank to update my wardrobe and found, much to my astonishment, that my waist line had expanded from 36 inches to 42 inches.

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Appreciation Reigns Supreme

Our daughter, Wende, is a production coordinator for commercials and films. Last week she worked with an eleven-camera television crew. As she sat with the director in the production booth

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Attacking Alzheimer’s

Bad news: Little meaningful progress has been made in finding a drug that will prevent or treat Alzheimer’s disease. Good news: A growing number of research physicians believe that lifestyle

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Disagreeing Agreeably

Lately I’ve been thinking about the anger that seems to infiltrate our daily lives.   Are the social, political and religious conflicts in our country worse now than in the past

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Condemn Not

Lately I’ve been thinking about our country’s political rancor: the vexing vile, vulgar, vacuous, violent, venomous, vicious, vilifications and vindications we perpetuate on each other. (Is that the longest alliteration

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