She is 94 and a great grandmother. Life now is limited by movement, memory and every other thing which comes with grand old age. Always elegant during her life, I don't know if Velcro has come into play but she would manage Velcro with style, she just would. Her daughter, my friend, told me yesterday that despite the creeping effects of time, her mother says every morning to herself, la vie est belle! And this stuck in the blogger's mind as true. So today I have this running in mind and everything gets the blessing of that sentence and instead of the blogger's mind filling with extraneous bits and pieces, nothing to do with what is going on, every little thing gets a chance to be really felt, really tasted and really considered. The great good fortune of health and ability to enjoy beauty and life is suddenly catapulted into memory and huge gratitude comes for just being alive. Even my husband has been sprinkled with magic today and the dogs and hens are given extra rations and extra pats.
And you can see from the picture above that the feeling of la belle vie is spreading from the grandmother to the great grandchild and just looking at it, you are feeling la vie est belle wherever you are. You can start just by joining in with that delicious and infectious smile. Thanks to that photographer for letting us into the secret.
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