De Ce Monde Secret de l’ Amelie Americaine

You know you wake up on a Sunday morning in the a foul mood because you lost an hour of sleep due to day light savings time, (pushed up 3 weeks early in the states). You turn on the television and all that’s on is depressing political commentary and sports. You look all over your apartment and all you see are chores, bills, and dust-bunnies needing to be swept up. Your friend’s cat just died. Your scary, drunk neighbor is having another loud, domestic squabble with her boyfriend, that has carried over from the night before. And existentially, you are having a debate with G_d about you purpose in life when nothing seems like it will ever be resolved or changed.

Then a friend sends you an email link to “the dancing frenchman” and everything seems a little more light-hearted and human again. I think it is beautiful that the same culture that gave us Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, and every other important, yet a “little too serious for their own good” philosopher, also has a sense of humor about itself. It’s so human. I LOVE IT!

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