The following responses inspired a follow-up to Mom’s Inner-Joy Goal blog. For new readers, a quick review about our private and quiet Mom’s desperate determination to keep her children--a six-year-old and three school-age teenagers together despite the emotional and physical upset of Dad’s unprovoked desertion leaving her…
We’ve examined two aspects of joy---Situational: comes and goes--happiness, and Inner: sticks around through thick and thin—private, helpful in making difficult decisions toward goal-reaching and heartfelt gratification. Google Research: Inner joy stems from internal factors like mindfulness, self-compassion, gratitude, and spiritual connections, as well as external actions such…
ruthjimward@gmail.com Google: Ruth Ward Blogs The subject of joy beckoned me onto a word-study trail, which is one of my favorite hikes. That tiny word has more than 30 synonyms along with many adjective forms. Joy is defined as an emotional noun with two distinctive styles: situational (outside)…
May/June 2025 ruthjimward@gmail.com Google: Ruth Ward Blogs As May inched toward June, and I was motivated to clean the bottom of my closet, I vividly recalled our mother’s yearly spring-cleaning routine, involving salvaging outgrown but good clothing or shoes, and tossing rubble, encountering and tossing a…
ruthjimward@gmail.com On a Sunday, before I was fully awake, my mind focused on the word, priorities. As I began to dress, a deluge of priority ideas prompting some quick note-taking caused me to wonder whether that subject was in-the-running for April’s blog. Kay would be picking me…
The word ROUTINE, bouncing in my mind for several days, is now bouncing to you. From the vantage point of observing three-year-olds, applying their first semblance of routine in dressing themselves and lining up toys and blocks while older siblings are at school, to 90-year-olds who employ routine for the…
ruthjimward@gmail.com /Google: Ruth Ward blogs “That’s me!” a doctor declared after I shared the title and purpose of this blog. “I started out preparing for a medical doctor but changed to another which has been much better.” Redirection is often considered negatively, or if uprooting is involved,…
Made for a Reason Jan. 14, 2025 ruthjimward@gmail.com or Google: Ruth Ward’s Blogs “I shop with a list”, a friend said as we compared grocery shopping routines. “But last week my husband tagged along. He questioned why I missed going down every aisle, and I told him…