Let's find joy

 

Smiling Angel located on the left-hand side of the main portal of the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral in Reims, France and was carved between 1236 and 1245.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

THICH NHAT HANH

In every joy which kindness triggers, flashes a flicker of that wild joy of limitless belonging.

BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST

You can GROAN now!

Sharing with Saturday's Critters

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“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

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I'm now listening to this book. It takes place in nearby Henderson County NC. It's read by a black woman, and is about a family through several generations (I think it's fiction.)

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Joy is gratefulness unbound.

JOE PRIMO

Fantasies large and small

  

I captured this from FaceBook. But there are several more videos also on YouTube under their title.

Every time someone posted a photo or video of these fantastic machines, I was captivated!

Space Odyssey

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A fossil find...proving fairies existed way back when, wherever this was!

Another fairy, painted by Cecily Mary Barker



Posted  to Facebook in 2019, I stated I felt like the tiny bird perched on the fairy's foot.

And finally my sepia photos for today...

Northfork schoolhouse, built around 1895 -1910,Swannanoa/Black Mountain NC. I'd say no wonder the teacher is sitting on the ground! That's a lot of kids!

Oh look, it's a little fairy that might be confused as a child dressed up as one!

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From fantasy fairies to giant puppets, it's all a wonderful way to tell stories. And my inner child still loves imagining these stories.

Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week...where Alan Burnett has hosted a regular prompt for many years from England...and lots of folks have posted some similar photos from their collections of old and/or interesting photos (usually sepia toned).

Today's quote:

Treasure this day and treasure yourself. Truly, neither will ever happen again.

Ray Bradbury Last year these bowls were at the Tailgate market