Comments on: Sympathetic Joy

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:27:24 +0000

omg I just laughed so hard I thought I was going to die. And I’ll take the toilet, too, thank you. Scout has already peed all over every surface in the house, anyway, right?

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:47:48 +0000

Joy! Coming from this side of the Pacific, too! The joy of the material (far too many great things acquired in PDX to fit in my tiny apartment, and the accompanying irritation at not having more space), and the ethereal (the realization that change is gonna come in many ways in the next year, for all of us), the wishful (that all my friends on both sides of the Pacific were in the same place–near me–all the time), and the immaterial (it is all gonna change anyway). But mostly the real joy of connecting with people, and the fullness that brings, for which there is always room! Thanks, Mara!

By: unreliable narrator

unreliable narrator — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:56:30 +0000

Y’all all in Texas now, ogling the two (yes TWO) purses, but:

Dontcha think we each need one of THESE?

http://thebloggess.com/?p=216

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:16:29 +0000

TWO purses??!

By: unreliable narrator

unreliable narrator — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:47:03 +0000

Pictures!

By: Mara Collins

Mara Collins — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:10:20 +0000

So I get to see the sympathetic boots and the two purses live and in person in, oh, 28 hours, but I think the internet wants pictures, Jenny.

By: jenny

jenny — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:11:16 +0000

Guess what?!! My Christmas present (Keen boots) finally arrived today. Happy, happy, joy, joy! And, ironically enough, I bought not one but two purses yesterday. Purses ROCK.

By: Mara Collins

Mara Collins — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:06:00 +0000

Really? Is there anything happier than friends generous enough to be happy with you on a good hair day?

By: unreliable narrator

unreliable narrator — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:13:27 +0000

NB, to Señor Patrick: But, good hair? is NOT a “small thing”!!! ;o)

By: unreliable narrator

unreliable narrator — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:08:51 +0000

Per Keats: “More happy love! more happy, happy love!” And happy happiness! Happy!

Also I think of that Douglas Hofstadter WFF (“apple horse apple happy apple apple”) and feel further happiness. Maybe the key to mudita is goofiness? As Jenzai says, big exuberant bouncings!

If we find absolute universal love instantiated in the living beloved, what’s so wrong with finding joy and rightness incarnated in material expressions? I ask you rhetorically.

At any rate, here’s to 1) jeans that freaking FIT, 2) cool boots and groovy woman-stopping coats, and 3) purselessness. Because purses SUCK. And now I am off to listen to the Fugees.