Then there is the joy of hand-washing clothes.
My dad still gets great joy out of handing me a hundred dollar bill every now and then when I visit.
Just what this joy of eye and hand and ball should be called is hard to say.
He was able to sample the better restaurants when taking clients and food editors out to lunch, but his small salary forced him into the kitchen, a copy of "Joy of Cooking" in hand.
When that loser sees you've moved on...he may end up realizing that he should have never let you go...then you have the joy of the upper hand!
Most cabinet jobs come with constituencies that have a built-in incentive to love-bomb the agency boss (with the implied promise of future cushy employment); also there's the joy of traveling around, handing out those oversize photo-op federal checks to flashing smiles.
We watch in awe of what can be done so quickly and so immensely satisfying in the reaction to it, the joy of getting our hands on the next in a series of impossible objects — Pet Sounds, a Day in the Life, even the president of the United States must stand naked.
Will the joy of holding in your hand a small piece of your family history be lost?
There are many firsts in life that we never forget, but medicine has different firsts: the first newborn you delivered; the family's tears of joy as you handed their child to them; the first death you declared; the first patient you revived.
From my parents, my grandparents, aunts and uncles, I learned the joy of working with my hands to exact a positive change on the world around me. Coming of age amongst these excellent Americans, I learned to build and dig and garden and sew.
"Whether I want kids is a secret I keep from myself — it is the greatest secret I keep from myself," she confesses: On the one hand, the joy of children.
