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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
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas " became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.
Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:16pm December 10, 2025 at 7:16pm
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Prompt:
"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope." Jane Austen
Write about this in your Blog entry today.
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What an invitation! Well, if patience is required many of us, starting with yours truly, it would flunk. Yet, happiness or joy is not something distant, mysterious, or waiting in the hands of others. It's always within us.
In my case, I'm quite okay until I have to see a doctor. That is when my blood pressure jacks up. Then, it is a spiral, and I'm always told, "Well, your everything checks out well, but why this bp number?" This was so, again, today.
I told the doctor that his nurse hurried me down a long corridor and as soon as I sat down, without letting me catch my breath, took my blood pressure. Of course, it was dangerously high. So I told the doctor what happened. He took my blood pressure again and this time it was much lower, although not the low, normal number I get at home. So he added another bp med to my treasury of pills.
It isn't my fault if the medical profession doesn't agree with the idea that peace, clarity, and fulfillment doesn't arrive by hurrying people. My body, like life, moves at its own pace.
Also, the quote says, βOr give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.β Hope has to have patience. Hope means waiting, possibly in stillness. Hope and patience together keep us grounded and glowing.
I don't know how this quote relates to my today's medical adventure, but I still have trust in my doctors and I can still understand why and how the nurses are pushed to their limits. As they say, "All in good faith!"
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