THE FIVE JOYS

Cathy over at Breathless Expectations [link under favorite sites] has suggested that it is a good idea to close out each day with a consideration of five joys realized in the course of the day.

We feel that this is a superb idea and posted five ‘joys’ on her website last nite.
And today another few have occurred to me, this time three which were suggested by a character in Lonesome Dove – the TV special – the first one, not the greatly inferior second edition.
The three suggested ‘joys’ were voiced by Robert Duvall who played the fictional character Gus McCrae.
Fictional he was but so spectacularly realistic and full of life’s lessons that I used parts of the film repeatedly in my teaching unit on the Westward Movement.
Anyway, three ‘joys’ of the day as suggested by Gus McCrae [paraphrased]:

1 The smile of a pretty woman
2 a sunrise in the morning or a sunset at night
3 the taste of fine whisky

And today I would add:

4 a fine steak on the grill (the rain let up for a few minutes)
5 being able to watch the coverage of the Kennedy Funeral

Thanks, Cathy, for the idea of the five joys.