Joy Blues

https://youtu.be/P8tTwXv4glY?t=95
In Spite of Ourselves John Prine and Iris DeMent –(Live From Sessions at West 54th)

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
― Buddha

https://youtu.be/HTDjD_UdJYs?list=RDyo4Ls4gfOAE&t=47
Howlin’ Wolf “Smokestack Lightning” Live 1964

A flower blossoms for it’s own joy.

https://youtu.be/0vo23H9J8o8?list=RD0vo23H9J8o8
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride and Joy

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
― Helen Keller

https://thepeaceresource.com/2015/02/05/scatter-joy/

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
― William Wordsworth

https://youtu.be/0vo23H9J8o8?list=RD0vo23H9J8o8
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride and Joy

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
― Anais Nin

https://youtu.be/XyCn8IC5RpE?list=RDXyCn8IC5RpE
Mix – Nina Simone – I Shall Be Released

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

https://thepeaceresource.com/2015/01/24/dreams-dreamers-and-dreaming/

“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

https://youtu.be/ZHr38NcFyts
Roy Orbison – Sweet dreams

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.”
― Arundhati Roy

https://youtu.be/3mSAfYomtr4
“Hold On” by tOM ttomwaits from the album ‘Mule Variations,’ 1999