Microjoys are about holding joy in one hand, and grief in the other.

It sounds like positive thinking is useful when you have energy to give, But microjoys are a kind of survival kit for terrible times, because they ask for nothing in return. With positive thinking, there’s an exchange. You put out what you put I get back mostly. But with microjoys, it’s just receiving , when you have nothing left to give. All that microjoys demands of us is presence. But we have to train ourselves to receive those moments. And these moments of being present brought you back to life. I realized the only way that I was going to recognize a part of myself again was to reach for the small moments of joy and hope that were right in front of me. – Cyndie Spiegel