Spending time in the kitchen should not only be about the end result, but the small, gentle, joyous moments along the way.
In many ways, a young child acts as if they are stoned anyway: raucous laughter at the smallest joke, joyous appreciation of the senses and a voracious appetite to follow.
It takes my breath away a little, makes my stomach swell with that small glow of joyous triumph and the excitement that my 13-year-long quest is almost over.
So it goes for so many twentysomethings, at least the ones fortunate enough to stumble around looking for a plan: life experiences — big, small, weird, disappointing, joyous — accumulate, like puzzle pieces that don't quite fit together.
Edward Morgan, a charismatic performer whose love for ballet finds expression in his small company's joyous classicism, once performed in the ultimate outdoor theater space, the amphitheater in Athens while on tour with the Joffrey Ballet.
Despite small quibbles, the event is joyous.
PARIS — Croatia became the 28th member of the European Union on Monday, a joyous moment for the small, predominantly Roman Catholic country about 20 years after it won independence in the bloody wars of the Balkans.
The first scene in Newtown is a joyous school parade through small-town America.
With Jeffrey Wright, who is brilliantly seductive as Muddy Waters; Columbus Short, as Little Walter; Cedric the Entertainer, as the songwriter Willie Dixon; a joyous Mos Def, as Chuck Berry; and, in a small but unforgettable performance, Eamonn Walker, as Howlin' Wolf.
