The Joy Experiment

Get Crafty

Over the last 16 months or so I’ve learned a new craft that I absolutely love! Head over to my Etsy Shop and use code JOY20 for 20% off! Personalized items are available and more will be coming. Because reading endows knowledge and knowledge enables freedom, all sales support children’s literacy.

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April 2, 2022

Projects

craft, etsy, freedom, handmade, knitting, literacy

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March 16, 2022

Essays and Stories

death, legacy, poetry, visual poetry

Traveling with Stuffies

It was the end of Spring, 2013. I was BURNT OUT (all the caps and all the feels). Having accumulated more than 300 hours of paid time off I desperately needed to use it. However, having over-extended my delayed decision to the brink, I was not in a state of mind to settle on a…

cjrichardson

February 9, 2022

Essays and Stories

adventure, bravery, experience, failure, fear, freedom, solitude, success, travelling

It’s a Wonderful Life… Isn’t it?

In the 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life an angel (Clarence) is sent from Heaven to help a suicidal man (George Bailey). The little story The Greatest Gift, on which the film is based, has grown over the past 75 years from a couple hundred family and friends to an audience of millions.1 It’s a…

cjrichardson

January 11, 2022

Essays and Stories

1946, Bailey, Christmas, community, Potter, serving, wonderful life

Legacy: Part One

Someone is sitting in the shade because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffet I walked into the enormous brick building that I hadn’t visited in years. The grand lobby with its 20 foot ceilings had been recently painted in muted grays. Sunlight was streaming in through the large windows on this…

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December 21, 2021

Essays and Stories

commission, community, fragility, legacy, virtue