Yet the more I wrote about disabled people who loved and fucked and birthed and died, and all the mess and joy in between, the less my work succeeded.
As the documentary's director, Rebecca Cammisa, follows them toward the United States border, her camera shows that a freight car roof can give them moments of freedom, even joy, in between the harsh lives and terrible choices at either end of the trip.
They may notice when I am so deep in despair that I'm too weak to breathe for air, but they don't notice the elation that escapes me when I can't hold the magic of joy between my teeth.
Shortly afterward, we see them in the back of a black car, joking with each other, in one of the few moments of genuine joy between them: two pros, triumphant.
"Ariel," despite the tragedy that attends it, is a book with much joy between its covers.
Can the term "family values" in the America of the 21st century be recaptured to express natural love and joy between parent and child and not just a personnel political perspective?
Something to give me joy between conference calls and wedding dress fittings.
Pleasure can happen both in the bedroom, with sex being center stage or out of the bedroom, with actions that ignite energy and bring positive experiences of joy between soul mates.
Once the swing came down, Grace and I chatted and we agreed the swing represented both good and bad times, but it was now the appropriate time for both Grace and me, as father and daughter, to turn the page, to start a new chapter, and find a new source of joy between us.
