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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Daily Cascade #1102877 added December 3, 2025 at 11:45am
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Loving the Little Things
Prompt:
"I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I reread passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are many, great glorious pieces of good in the world."
Dolly Parton
Write about this quote in your Blog entry today.
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I think we have some kind of a mental interconnectedness in this forum. Now, just two days ago, I started a small physical notebook "my tiny joys" to note just what this prompt is saying. I'll try to add its image at the end.
This new notebook is in addition to my gratefulness notebook, which I write in every night, and I have kept gratefulness notebooks for several years. This new "My Tiny Joys" notebook is in addition to that, and I can write in it anytime I want to, jotting down a tiny happiness. I already have several pages now, about all sorts of things, and surely I also wrote of my appreciation of WdC and WdC friends in it. 
Usually, the entries in this notebook are only one or two sentences. I wonder if I'll ever write longer ones.
Here are two short quotes from it:
"When the warm water touches my hands while washing dishes, I feel it is singing a healing song to my fingers."
*"Al's visit today, the cute way he fixed and organized my cellphone's icons while he talked to me at the same time, in his usual soft, sweet way."
* Al is my younger son.
As for other little things, I love to watch the short videos on YouTube that are about babies and cats, maybe because I still miss my cat who died last year or maybe because I love both babies and cats.
As such, happiness is in moments, small and ordinary ones. Those moments remind me that I am still present in this life so I can notice the sweetness hidden in ordinary, routine moments. Such small comforts are gifts I can be grateful for, without fanfare, as if putting pebbles in my pockets at the seaside, when I was a kid.
Maybe, that is what life is. It's a whole made from many brief, shimmering moments and not the milestones I used to go after or anticipate. When I honor such moments, my contentment steadies and I see that happiness and joy is not rare, after all. It is simply small and is in everything and everywhere.
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