Harper’s Bazaar is back with their perennial Beauty issue. Beauty in all its vibrant individual forms is not to be discounted as a worthy tonic for the ugly in society like war and ongoing injustice.
What can be defined as a work of beauty is vast. There is beauty in self-acceptance. There is beauty in overcoming a hardship. There is beauty in feeling what we feel.
All around us beauty exists.
There is beauty in going through what we experience in life as our lives are not lived in vain.
There’s no shame in anyone’s game. It’s time to recognize as beautiful what gives each of us joy.
That could be watching a video of a kitten. Or having a caffe latte at 3:00 in the afternoon. Or buying a pair of whimsical socks at a local boutique in our neighborhood
All around us beauty exists. I think everyone should install “I Am Light” the song by India.Arie in their iTunes library or on a device. The vocalist gets at how she is not her physical attributes or any of the markers that can be seen.
India.Arie croons that “I Am Light” and like her we are all light. We are light for each other in the darkness.
There’s beauty in our differentness which is a gift we give each other.
God did not stamp human beings out with a cookie cutter. Right. We are all beautiful.
Life is Beauty Full. Case closed.
I think I’ve written this all before so must sound like a broken record.
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