Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When it becomes an extra burden rather than a joy, that's not a healthy restriction," she says...
...Dean of the Chinese playwrights," The Wild Land (adapted into English by Doris Chu) tells the tale of a young woman who strains to escape the pressures of her family in turn of the century China. An escaped convict offers her a chance to reach a place of ceaseless joy. March 18-28. Tremont Theater. 219 Tremont...
...there in 1834-1835, began writing his first great essay, "Nature," in the second-floor study. Hawthorne lived there with his beloved bride Sophia from 1842 to 1845, writing Mosses from an Old Manse. On windows throughout the house, Sophia used her diamond wedding ring to etch words of joy about her marriage and the beauty that surrounded her, including the ice-draped trees outside that she described as "glass chandeliers." The vegetable garden in the back was planted by Thoreau as a wedding gift...
However, I caution those of us who were there that fighting for justice rarely comes as easily or with as much joy and pleasure as it came on Tuesday. And I caution us as well that the battle has not been won and that the war is far from over. But we know now that we can do it, as long as we keep in mind what the real achievement was on Tuesday: our strength, our unity, our voices, our convictions and our joy. We came together on Tuesday to fight serious social problems, from rape, to poverty...
...their South Florida home; for the 80-acre farm near Newport they bought in 1996, they're paying a third of that. The average price for a two-bedroom, two-bath home on one acre is $75,000. For that, you also get the weather. Joy and Mac McMurray are another couple who left the Sunshine State, selling their West Palm Beach home and building their dream house on 88 mountaintop acres. "We've joined the other half-backs," explains Joy, 55. "That's when you go from up north to Florida and then come halfway back again...