What Does Your Joy Battery* Look Like?

Joy battery. Lori Ellison, über-talented NY artist, posted on Facebook this morning that she has "a joy battery that keeps her going."And that got us to thinking: a joy battery is a necessity. Non-stop joy is unrealistic but the access to joy should be 24/7. That is, as adults, or at a certain point in our lives, we should know how, have the tools, to create joy for ourselves. Unless you're one of those phlegmatic types for whom it makes uncomfortable. So be it. Go for it. But we digress.

After writing about gold lamé last week, and only owning two thin belts made of the material, we decided a larger gold lamé objêt was necessary because if a tiny thin belt made us smile, think of the potential of a bigger dose...... and voilà! Feast your eyes (sunglasses might be required) on this....

Today's the first day we carried it (and that was *before* reading Lori's post). Plus it's a cold rainy spring morning.

The p/e is ridiculously high.



*coined by artist Lori Ellison

The Samé is Not Lamé

Would it surprise you to learn gold lamé is inspired by Medieval cloth of the real stuff? Probably not. It's come a long way from clothing Jewish high priests in ephods. Not to mention, fencer's jackets. 

When you wear gold lamé (not silver, copper or bronze), do you feel differently? And we're assuming you do wear it or you wouldn't have read this far. If it doesn't make you feel differently, why bother? And since it does, how would you describe it? 

Pearl has a hunch it makes us feel differently not because of Elvis. But because of our hard-wiring back to the Middle Ages. Our bodies know lamé isn't real gold but our minds, ahh our minds, have a faint memory of this fine cloth unlike any other.

And that is to what we are responding.

And if a shiny polyester fabric with a metallic sheen the color of sunlight brings something back, is that so terrible?