MEME: joie * de * vivre

joie de vivre

Main Entry: joie de vi·vre

Pronunciation: "zhwä-d&-'vEvr

Function: noun

Etymology: French, literally, joy of living

: keen or buoyant enjoyment of life
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I think I want to start a meme. Summer is a time when I feel an especial joie de vivre, so this meme is in honor of celebrating and loving life.

If you could pick one photo that epitomizes joie de vivre, or quote one short piece of prose or poetry, or write one, what would it be?

Don't think about it long and hard, just do the first thing that comes to mind. I've got two, and I'm gonna post them both because I'm making the rules. The photo's above, the poem is below.

In the meantime, I tag Andrea, Melodee, the Cryders, the Sutherlands, Anne, Liz, Mel, Hannah, TBR, T.L., Beth, Denise and Laura. If you send me a link, I'd love to post your contributions on BCG. OR, if you don't have a blog (you know who you are) and you still want to play, send me your contribution and I'll post it for you here. Please play with me!!!

And now, without further ado, my poem (borrowed from ee cummings)

i thank You God for most this amazing

day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth

day of life and love and wings:and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any--lifted from the no

of all nothing--human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

by ee cummings