Comments on: Contending for Joy http://themoderatevoice.com/52021/contending-for-joy/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Thu, 31 May 2012 01:03:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: fairlyspiritual http://themoderatevoice.com/52021/contending-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-228768 fairlyspiritual Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:37:52 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52021#comment-228768 Thanks for the encouraging comments and links! Thanks for the encouraging comments and links!

]]> By: kathykattenburg http://themoderatevoice.com/52021/contending-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-228750 kathykattenburg Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:24:48 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52021#comment-228750 That was beautiful, Doug. Thank you. That was beautiful, Doug. Thank you.

]]> By: HemmD http://themoderatevoice.com/52021/contending-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-228685 HemmD Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:24:58 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52021#comment-228685 Great uplift.<br><br>here's another. short, but oh so sweet.<br><br><a href="http://www.break.com/index/tricked-on-halloween.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.break.com/index/tricked-on-halloween...</a><br><br>peace and welcome home. Great uplift.

here's another. short, but oh so sweet.

http://www.break.com/index/tricked-on-halloween…

peace and welcome home.

]]> By: SteveK http://themoderatevoice.com/52021/contending-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-228623 SteveK Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:37 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52021#comment-228623 <blockquote>The scientist in me began to assess the joyless reality of so many of my contemporaries. The poet in me began to lament the loss of such beauty. But the fool in me momentarily entertained the possibility that this joy is still present and accessible. Maybe there is still a dancing, hopping, skipping, twirling joy deep within this blurry man.<br><br>I quickly shook away the notion. That’s a ridiculous thought Doug, a childish thought. Only a silly little boy would think such things.<br>At that thought, my heart leapt with joy!</blockquote>Bravo!.. And thank you Doug. <br><br>We all have that child (that joy) inside, it's just some are embarrassed or ashamed by it and therefore never let him/her out to play.<blockquote>children guessed (but only a few<br>and down they forgot as up they grew..<br><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/anyone-lived-in-a-pretty-how-town/" rel="nofollow">anyone lived in a pretty how town</a> by ee cummings</blockquote>

The scientist in me began to assess the joyless reality of so many of my contemporaries. The poet in me began to lament the loss of such beauty. But the fool in me momentarily entertained the possibility that this joy is still present and accessible. Maybe there is still a dancing, hopping, skipping, twirling joy deep within this blurry man.

I quickly shook away the notion. That’s a ridiculous thought Doug, a childish thought. Only a silly little boy would think such things.
At that thought, my heart leapt with joy!

Bravo!.. And thank you Doug.

We all have that child (that joy) inside, it's just some are embarrassed or ashamed by it and therefore never let him/her out to play.

children guessed (but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew..
anyone lived in a pretty how town by ee cummings

]]> By: JSpencer http://themoderatevoice.com/52021/contending-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-228613 JSpencer Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:17 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52021#comment-228613 YOWZA!!! Awesome post Doug! YOWZA!!! Awesome post Doug!

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