The French have a saying, "la joie de vivre" - elle a la joie de vivre (she has "the joy of life")... As a teen, growing up in a French colony in Africa, surrounded by French-french friends and French-Canadian friends, and Belgian-french friends, I heard this saying quite a bit. It meant that this girl/female has an inner joy/inner beauty that radiates through her body, her smile, her mannerisms, and spreads like sunshine to others. As an adult, it's not so simple anymore... Or is it? Can joie de vivre carry a woman through anything? Can joie de vivre help a woman survive unemployment of herself, her husband, infertility, financial struggles, disappointing family get-to-gethers, a national recession?
Yes, I say, with a resounding YES!!! Yes it can!!! And let's get on with it!
Yes, I say, with a resounding YES!!! Yes it can!!! And let's get on with it!
Love this, too! ;-)
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