Word: joyful
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When asked what reaction his camera receives in Colombia, Munera replied that at first, it is met with great joy. The photographer says he observes that people are eager to see themselves as they really are, just as he is interested in portraying Colombia as it really exists. He believes that the desire to know what we look like will encourage Colombians to identify one another as brothers, and to come together under more than a flag and a government...
Apart from draining joy from young lives, untreated childhood anxiety tends to morph into adolescent depression, a strong risk factor for suicide. Living with fear wears down the will to live, and constantly avoiding unpleasant things - while it offers short-term relief - eventually makes the sufferer feel isolated and useless. Katherine, 18, of Brisbane, recalls a childhood spent in her "own little world," not feeling close to either parent, hung up on doing everything perfectly and racked by the fear of getting into trouble. By her final year of high school, she was so filled with despair that she resolved...
...sets the color palette for the day. If Joy [Behar] is going to wear a fuchsia top, then we're color coordinated around her. And we have never once in seven years had a disagreement--"Oh, I want to wear red today. Oh, I was planning to do that." Not one time...
...course, Bridget Jones isn't the only flavor of chick lit around. Though it's non-fiction, Harry Stein's The Girl Watchers Club (HarperCollins; 315 pages) takes its cues from Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: it celebrates the folksy wisdom of an older generation of men. The Girl Watchers Club is an informal cabal of men in their 70s and 80s who meet once a week to prowl yard sales and grouse about things "these days." These are men who grew up in the Depression and came...
...work “By the Shores of Ostia,” its particular murkiness and the houses their faded oranges and purples, evocative of sunset. He infused his later 1984 work “Study for Festivities” with a sense of pure human joy, though the painting does not contain a single human figure. When Alcalay finally came to grips with himself as a landscape painter, he saw himself in his early years as “describing the landscape. Now, I’m evoking the landscape...