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Joy is a delicate thing

a fragile thing

a sumptuous jewel

hanging by a thread,

easily upended

and so often squandered;

a thing most of us seek

yet many fail to recognize.

It sits beside us

awaiting recognition

clambering for attention,

“Hey, look over here, Stupid!”

try too hard

and you’ll look right past it;

for “it” isn’t an it at all

but an attitude

a state of mind

a condition that has no boundaries

and is only conditioned

by the limitations

we place upon our expectations

by our having expectations

in the first place . . .

The limitations

we place upon ourselves

are just that–

limitations

and nothing more.

No one is making us be this way

or that way.

Nobody has that power over us

unless we give it to them.

The power is ours

to choose how we will view the world

and the world we see

is the world we create with that power

each moment of our lives

as we have done since the beginning

with our without our awareness or approval.

I choose joy!

1 January 2017

Petaluma, CA

Tim Konrad