Whirling free - twirling - and light - Spring's intoxication after a long winter of cold and grey. A tiny pinecone in the form of a gift with a ripped orange piece of construction paper that says 'mom'.
Joy -showers of fluttering palest pink cherry blossoms and climbing higher in the tree than you imagined you'd be brave enough to. Galloping bareback on a horse through beauty.
Joy - experiencing rain pinging off of a glass smooth silent ocean in a kayak.
Joy -the perfect arches of a double rainbow - a blessing in swaths of sunlight and gently misting rain.
Joy - the first toothless smile from your baby looking into your eyes giving light.
Joy - harvest from your own garden. A bright delicate bouquet of Peonies picked just for you.
Joy - feeling like fire and alive after feeling cold and lifeless in your soul.
Joy -accepting a compliment and wearing it like a crown.
Joy - that first perfect sip of hot chocolate when you feel almost frozen.
Joy - bike riding down the middle of a road down a hill hands free.
Joy - baby birds with their mouths wide open and their first flight.
Joy - kittens walking for the first time.
Joy - a gleaming kitchen sink.
Joy - warm apple crisp, jumping off a water fall, getting engaged, getting to the top of the mountain you have climbed, scuffing piles of crisp Autumn leaves holding your grandmother's hand.
Joy - a gentle kiss from your mother.
Joy - A sunset over the mountains.
Joy - music and rhythm, dancing and laughter, a dress that fit you perfectly, a good hair cut, licking an ice cream cone, the first snow of the year with children beyond excited, time with friends, feeling perfectly understood.
Joy
It can come unexpectedly and be fleeting. It can transport you past yourself and any circumstance. It can sweep you away and fill you. It is to be felt fully in the moment. It is so much of what our hearts beat for.
Joy
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