"And bid the future pay the past
With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?"
Farewell - Anne Brontë

Heather, your shows at The Iron Horse were the best I have ever seen from you. The joy is showing through...

"The violence of either grief or joy
Their own enactures with themselves destroy.
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident."
(Hamlet, Act III - Scene II)

Slender Accident would make a great Heather Maloney song title!!!

How about melancholy?

For your tour, you could reshape it to "Maloneycholy" (much like another play on words when you are solo on stage - "Heather Aloney")

There is a book called "Melancholic Joy: On Life Worth Living" that I have had on my list to read. I think I will start tonight.