DON BLANDING
"Joy is an Inside Job"
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1953
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 159 pages
Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding
Dedication:
YOU. Yes, you. Because you are in this page of expression of the rich warming
emotion
of Gratefulness which I feel toward all who helped with this book.... "What did I
do?" you ask.
Perhaps you gave friendliness... or understanding silence,
perhaps expectancy... or patient listening,
perhaps you were simply there when I needed you,
or when I needed the thought of you
as you, Companion Vagabond,
as I think of you,
are here now.
Acknowledgement: Thanks to the
Micronesian crew of the ship MV Metomkin.
The hospitality of my friends in Bend, Oregon.
The staff of the Science of Mind Magazine and Let's Live.
To Ed and Carmen Sawtelle.
The folks of Center of Light and Gusto.
To Ted Narramore, friend, companion.
Contents:
| Where is Vagabond's House Now? A Certain Hour Aloha, Friends Reluctant Author Here is the Bull-Session that I Had with Silent Partner Greetings, Companion Vagabonds You and I are Being Introduced How the First Atom Bomb Fell on Vagabond's House Husks at the Banquet Onehood This is the Story of the Second Atom Bomb on Vagabond's House The Feel of It I Died at Dawn And Then What? What Am I Trying to Prove? The Joyous Journey to Joy-Age What is Joy? Birds of an Odd Feather Flock Together Idiom of Joy-Age Road-Maps, Sign-Posts, Patrin and Things Like That Sons of Dust Tips for Companion-Vagabonds... A Ponder-Over for the Journey Private Willie's Birthday Party People are My World Nature is God's Metaphor What would You Tell Him Now? Bark, Brave Pup If This Be All... Companion Vagabonds One Joy is Dynamic Tumbleweed Trail Junior is Born Quenched Thirst I Choose Joy Joy is a Face-lift |
Telescope Peak Riddle The Selective Heart Halo Colored Slides Big Where the Sun Sets This Book is For You if You Are... Monkey Business Peeled Zero To Know a Country Immensity I am Not a Person Joyful Rendezvous The Game of Hot or Cold Three Ears Sons of Dust Seed of the Tumbleweed What is this "Joy-Age?" Patrin Rain The Think Gadget Where is Wonder? Lost Wonder Triplets Where is the Rose? What's in a Name? Often, a Fight Gift-Wrappings Growth Times of Fog Grease-Paint A Dream Dreams a Dream Deeper than the Word Three Cities Artesian... Spontaneous... Fountain Oil Millionaires Joy Knows the Face of Grief Not There "As" Scarecrow Waltz Splendid Laughter |
Closed for the Season Eternal Triangle Argument Among the Flora; Lotus, Cactus and Air-Plant Unfinished Autobiography Tight-Rope Over Grand Canyon The Flurry-Go-Round Prodigal Daughters... Prodigal Sons Eternal Song From Prodigal Son's Diary Eleventh Hour Tell the Tales of Babylon For the Altar Idiom of Joy-Age Whom I Call Father Universal Heart Beyond Drouth Landed Gentry Tree Temperaments The Passing Show As Thyself... Chain Reaction Diamonds or Diapers Idiom of Joy-Age (Silent Partner Talks with John Ego Adamsmith) The Spirit of Forest Lawn Less Than the Flower The Considered Lily The Tattooed Man Dare Speak of Joy Stripped Armor Question and Answer in Korea Why Do We Mourn? The Light is Mine Little Lesser Gods Is it That Easy? Divided Road Then You Know Last Road-Sign On the Joyous Journey to Joy-Age |
Notes:
Rain was written for Carmen and Prentice Sawtelle.
Scarecrow Waltz is a follow-up to a poem in A Grand Time Living.
The Spirit of Forest Lawn was written for the Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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