The Gods of Joy

[Manuel Tavares]

The Gods of Joy
By Catherine Viel
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O the joy of my spirit! It is uncaged! It darts
like lightning!
It is not enough to have this globe, or a certain time
—I will have thousands of globes, and all time.
~Walt Whitman, Poems of Joy

It’s possible I’m being too picky, but certain conditions need to be present before joy can come through my emotional doorway. It’s quite basic and perhaps not very spiritual, but my top criteria is a pain-free, mobile body. Without that, the wheel of joy can’t seem to engage with the cog of myself.

Oh, sure, I might receive jolts of delight throughout the day, like sparklers to brighten my mood. But the full-blown, 1812-Overture-fireworks version of joy? Dancing, singing, bursting-at-the-seams joy? It’s an elusive animal, and I suspect that if I did trap it, like many a wild animal, it would soon wither and die in captivity.

Most likely, my best option is to obliquely set out the welcome mat, not throw the door wide and haul the shy creature that is joy inside by its collar, scolding, “It’s about time you got here!”....+
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