joy

joy is:

• sleeping in until noon after seeing the dawn break through the blinds
• breakfast of eggs fried in toast and fresh blackberries in a clean kitchen
• a leisurely shower
• tangled limbs in fresh sheets
• spoiling oneself from the proceeds of the first acting gig one has ever gotten paid for
• hanging framed pictures
• the mountains turning red from the sunset, watched from an open-air balcony
  
• mushrooms and red peppers sauteed in white wine
• drinking the crispness of the white wine
  
• a small child cavorting in his white tshirt, which she is using for a nightgown
  
• playing records with a friend through turntable.fm
• "mommy, can you make me land gracefully on the lake?" by which she means the couch, flapping her hands as she flies
• and later singing along quite seriously to the music played on turntable.fm
• papers graded slowly and steadily, with no expectation of anything but industriousness
• plum dahlias given just because