Lamenting that 'philosophy, even with people of understanding, should be an empty and fantastic name, a thing of no use and no value",[14] he asserted that philosophy should be the most cheerful activity.
Running CNBC in the background makes my home office seem not like a solitary prison cell or torture chamber but like a beehive of cheerful, important activity.
The phrase "adult day care center" bothers some people -- they find it infantilizing, or just unappetizing -- but I like the way it explains the idea: Your frail elderly relative can't stay at home alone, so she goes to a bright, cheerful place where activities keep her mind and body active and connect her with others.
Here are some cheap, cheerful and entirely Christmassy activities you can do together.
The Gorgie district of west Edinburgh is a sinuous urban weave of railway lines and sandstone tenements studded with cheerful nodes of human activity, including Polish delicatessens, cobblers, a city farm, umpteen barbers, a gospel hall and Heart of Midlothian football club.
Presiding over the endless activities are the ever cheerful, ever energetic GOs.
The poem plays, consciously or not, on Bishop's famous conclusion to "The Bight": "All the untidy activity continues, / awful but cheerful".
The eccentric, cheerful learn-to-read site is loaded with scattershot activities.
The atmosphere is cheerful, yet the children are studiously taking part in the activity, focusing all their attention on their respective assignments.
In conclusion, the adapted physical and social activities at the activity center, as delivered by committed and cheerful specialist nurses in dementia care, as well as by volunteers, may have had a positive influence on the informants' health and well-being.
