Joy V

Anyone up with the times has just got to love Facebook.  What a wondrous tool.  As we track down friends using FB we have the opportunity to stay in touch, at least very superficially, with people we might otherwise loose in the hectic pace of our lives.

I learn all kinds of things about my friends that I might not ever know if it weren’t for FB.  This week I learned that a dear friend lost a beloved pet after 19 years of companionship.  Another friend has a clock that counts down the days until Spring.  Then there is my friend Paul F. who just announced his engagement via FB by simply writing “She said YES!”

I’ve known Paul for probably more than 30 years.  Early on we were both heavily involved in a volunteer organization and worked together on many projects.  We had tons of mutual friends and simply put he was a fun, gentle, kind man.  Being a very typical woman I wanted to see him married off.  It always felt like he would be so complete with the right woman.  I think most of his ‘girl’ friends felt the same.

So now he is headed down the path of married life.  It will be a big change for him.  He is approaching 60 (I’m pretty sure) and never been married.  But from the photos he is posting my gut instinct says he has found the right woman.  They look like they belong together.  I don’t know her at all, but Paul will make a wonderful husband.  He will be kind, thoughtful, considerate, gentle….all that stuff.   And she will adore him for it. 

There is a French saying, from the ancient region of Saintonge (no longer in existence) that says….

‘Qui va chap’tit, va loin’ …….He who goes gently goes far.  That’s Paul.

The JOY bubbles are grinning….big time!!