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I was watching Deadline White House earlier today and Nicolle Wallace wanted to have an extended conversation about the “joy” that has been emanating from the Harris/Walz campaign.
Now that did it!
Since “joy” seems to be the buzzword for the week and the fact is that I prefer clear and precise definitions of nearly...everything, really, I want to know what this thing called “joy” is all about.
I looked up a bunch of online dictionaries and I found definitions like “extreme happiness” in enough entries that we can go with that.
As far as happy or happiness is concerned, let’s stick with Cambridge: feeling, showing, or causing pleasure or satisfaction.
Oxford does make it a point of including “contentment” in their definition of happy so let’s include that, as well simply because “contentment” was what I felt in addition to pleasure and satisfaction in what I consider to be the most joyous moment of my life.
I was in California at the age of 3 years old and I was on my uncle’s front lawn blowing bubbles.
I was happy. Content. Extremely so. I think that I have been chasing that feeling— that buzz— ever since. Even going to Disneyland later on that on very trip to California wasn’t as joyous as that.
I don’t know where those moments on the lawn came from. I have certainly felt joy...a few times since then; a few Michigan football games, receiving god-knows how many certificates of achievement when I graduated middle school, a certain boyfriend that made me feel a little somethin’-somethin’, November 4, 2008, being hired here at Daily Kos doing what I’ve always wanted to do with as a vocation.
Maybe only children are truly capable of having moments of pure joy as such. Maybe it’s only through sadness and pain and suffering that one can truly experience joy.
Maybe joy defies definitions and explanations and you simply grab hold of it and roll with it.
It’s not a permanent state, I don’t think. Hell, if it was a permanent state, I would think that one was mentally ill or something.
Yeah...better to enjoy it when it happens than to constantly pine for it, I think.
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From belinda ridgewood:
A great day for comments that are top! The first two are from Greg Dworkin's APR this morning:
JJRR2 is a white guy who took a crowbar to white male hegemony in a very welcome way.
Meanwhile, Rambler797 kindly provided instructional videos on the American Sign Language for "weird" and "none of your business!"
Then, in Walter Einenkel's diary comparing the Harris and Trump websites, 1BQ described what it would take to detox from the sight of that nasty tfg site.
From purple cones:
In the diary by ameriworks — among those saluting Lawrence O’Donnell’s indictment last night of the news media (regarding you-know-who) — this pictorial contrast made by Mathy Kathy.
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