Please note: Some of these clips take a few minutes
to start; have patience!
Prompts for Joy: 2009
What a Wonderful World: Animal lovers will especially
like this short one. (~ 2 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnox0YM9pWQ&annotation_id=annotation_603355&feature=iv
Bodhisattva in Metro: This one’s a little bit longer.
Just try not to laugh. (~6 ½ minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jedd2FiZTqM
Prompts
for Joy: December 2008
You’ve Probably Seen It, But Just in Case You
Haven’t:
Click
here for my top pick of the
year. This tale of Christian the Lion never fails to
elicit tears of joy …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U&feature=related
You’ll Get Chills Up Your
Spine:
Click
here for a 9-minute clip
about Negro Spirituals and Wintley Phipps’ rendition
of Amazing Grace.
Http://pjcockrell.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/amazing-grace-just-the-black-note
You’ll Think About These Long After You’ve
Listened:
Click
here for The Girl Who Silenced the World for 5
Minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0
Click
here for an inspiring message from Akaya Windwood
on taking risks.
http://www.1000voicesarchive.org/video/147/Akaya-Windwood-1000_Voices-Oakland-CA
Click
here for a story about an unlikely friendship.
http://www.slide.com/r/hD6DvyAOxD9ClUhvUpVcUMABW9QzpGnQ
Click
here for Jill Bolte Taylor’s now-famous
talk on her Stroke of Insight. It’s almost 19 minutes
long, but totally worth it.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
You’ll Wonder What’s So Funny
Until …
Click
here to look inside a teen’s
bedroom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOvqF4ZPDNM
Click
here for an amusing French lesson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUVagbFcSUU
Click
here for Part I and then Part II of Cat Talk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JynBEX_kg8
Click
here to view Gizmo’s
fascination with the toilet bowl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WofFb_eOxxA&feature=related
You Just Might Laugh Out Loud:
Click
here for a horse whose name has a hilarious pronunciation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqj2hkbDnyM
Click
here just in case you didn’t
get enough of the Real Diamonds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Man4MhABM
You’ll See Why They Say Happiness
is Contagious:
Click
here for an invitation to dance.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080722.html
With thanks to the following Out on a Limb subscribers
for forwarding these clips to me: Patty Block, Amy Jane
Cheney, Tom and Nancy Clark, Bill Faure, Kathleen Flowers,
Roberta Gelt, Monika Hartwig, Mike Miller, Bill Scala,
Kim Scala, and Sid Sun.
Prompts for Joy: December
2007
Something
Funny: Click
here for a baby’s infectious laughter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXXm696UbKY
Something
Moving and Inspiring: Click
here for Paul Potts’ rendition of Nessun
Dorma on the TV show, “Britain’s Got
Talent.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA&feature=related
Something
That’s Creative and Clever: Click
here for a music video by OK Go that you won’t
forget:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI
Something
That Evokes Great Memories: Click
here for a brief clip from a recent trip to Portugal.
This video was shot with a digital camera, while
riding a bicycle, by my husband, Bill. The song of
the sheep bells, alone, is a magnificent prompt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv1kAdlyiH0
Something
to Make You Laugh Out Loud: Click
here for a weather report that made me laugh
so hard, I cried.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQd79up_l_E&feature=related
For
Red Sox Fans, Only: Click
here for Jonathan Papelbon, the Red Sox’ no-nonsense
closer, celebrating sweet victory with a Riverdance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu43lbTrvOQ&feature=related
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