This resonated with me so much - cynicism isn’t as clever as it’s made out to be
@scottbarrykaufman @thepsychologypodcast
#hope
#cynicism
#joypops
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“The present is a feather on loan from the wings of time that only attention makes beautiful and only kindness valuable” over an azure magpie
Maria wrote a most beautiful bird book - or as she says, the birds were writing her 🫶🏼
An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days
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#birds
#booksky 📚
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The cover of “Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn
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My cat inside a suitcase poking her head out
Aurora is desperate to sleep in our bedroom so she sneaks in and tries her luck. Last night the sound of purring was so loud, but I couldn’t see her anywhere. Had to go sound-hunting, dragged my little suitcase out from under the bed et voila!
#catsofbluesky 🐈
#trickster
#joypops
Book cover of seagull flying close up in blue - Richard Bach’s “Jonathan Livingstone Seagull”
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Book cover of George Orwell’s 1984
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It has a lovely wintry hat 🩵
Listening to and feeling complex resonance weaving magic in my ears is joyful. Philip Glass’ Symphonies 1 and 4 doing Eno and Bowie’s Low and Heroes was exquisite.
#music
#thewholeisgreaterthanthesumofitsparts
#joypops
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Sunrise sky, yellow pink and blue
Sunrise brings a blue-yellow light combo that helps start the countdown clock to go to sleep … because even the most brilliant beginnings know the joy of a good ending 🫶🏼
#sunrise
#skyphotography 📷
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An image of text of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor do you withhold the “ay.” And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
Kahlil Gibran knew what joy was made of 🫶🏼
Also, so does Maria Popova who fills my soulcup with her wordsong 💖
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#friendship
#kahlilgibran
#joypops
Tom Sullivan running along the beach with his dog. Tom is blind and this is his autobiography If You Could See What I Hear
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Day 9️⃣
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Joy is my favourite remedy ❤️🔥
@darkerthanvanta.bsky.social same same! No one ever 🫶🏼 I was entranced by Birdy - I reckon I’ve spent my lifetime trying to understand and connect to the Birdy’s in our world. What did you love?
And I wonder what other odd matches we’d have 🫛
Book cover of Birdy by William Wharton 1980
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Day 8️⃣
I choose to embrace whatever joy comes my way, hungrily, thirstily, filling my soaring wings with the loft and lift of it 💞
#intentionality
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lol I did think that was you being cute at first, then second-guessed myself 💥 that’ll teach me to sidestep flow 🐦⬛
I’m sorry what kind of accommodation is this?!?! Where can I book in 😂
Yay! Thank you, much joy to be had - is IceCream beloved?
@pandomonium.bsky.social pic for proof?
Different ratings of different birds on a forest plot least loved bird is a wood pigeon. Most love bird is a long tailed tit.
This is a beautiful green king parrot
Birds bring joy, which brings anxiety alleviation - we’re picky primates so we prefer small, colourful songbirds, but it turns out ratings of different species don’t change how much wellbeing they bring.
Pls donate a birdpic 🫶🏼
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Perfectly joyous burial please 🙏
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“Was I seeing something akin to joy in a rat? Maybe so, considering that neuroscience research is increasingly suggesting that joy and positive emotions play a critical role in the health of both human and nonhuman animals.”
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#animalsfeeljoy
#goodscience
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Thanks for that neat deep dive 🌊
Is it wrong that I smiled at these ones?