C'est Si Bon: C'est Si Bon!

"C'est Si Bon!" was the toast as long as I can remember.

My grandfather, known as "Hughsey", the consummate host and Gin connoisseur would always raise his glass to the same toast.

Pictured here are my grandparents, Hugh and Joan (seated closest to the camera), with their lifelong friends Claude and Fran.

When the idea slowly crawled into my brain to create a blog, I could think of no better name for it, in part because of what it came to mean in my life. "C'est Si Bon", literally translates as "It is so good", and while it is usually in reference to food or drink (see dry Gin Martini on table above), it refers to all that is good and should be enjoyed in life. Everything that makes the world go round. Good friends, family, food, music, literature....

C'est Si Bon, Louis Armstrong Belgium 1959

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...And it doesn't hurt that one of my all time favorite Louis Armstrong songs shares the name.

This is a place to share the best of life. Cliche? Perhaps. But, necessary? Absolutley.
Too often we are so busy making a living or trying live the perfect life that we forget to Live Well.
The irony is that we do not need to be millionares or live in mansions with butlers and maids to live the good life. It is the style in which we live our lives day to day and interact with one another.