Natural Beauty

Beauty, in nature, is never isolated. Think of the way a forest breaks open into a meadow. Everything we witness is impacted by the things we saw leading up to the moment it caught our eye. Think of the way a forest breaks open into a meadow or how a sunrise breaks out of the dark grey of the early morning.

 The beauty in a smile isn’t in the aesthetic qualities of the smile itself, but rather the way the smile breaks across the face - an expression of the soul in response to something.

The beauty in a human being isn’t in the aesthetic qualities of their physical presence. Beauty is in the the context of everything that surrounds that human’s life and their choice to show up presenting themselves to the world in their own imperfect way. It’s the unique complexity of the whole experience of a life lived.