This morning I suggest spending some time
Meditating On Beauty
Beauty is my constant companion, especially since I began my serious study of photography. Everywhere I look I see it.
What a glorious morning! This morning I woke up early and looked out at the pond and all I saw was beauty. So I quickly dressed and went out on the deck to spend time meditating on beauty. As I swung forward and back on our deck swing, ducks quacked, a Canada goose flew over the pond, frogs croaked, and a gentle breeze caressed my skin. I could see leaves bursting out, ducks swimming in the pond, green grass on the lawn, and tree branches swaying in the breeze. It was wonderful to simply sit and soak up all the beauty and wonder of the world.
“When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.”
― Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Wandering in Wonder
When I finished meditating I grabbed my camera and began wandering around the backyard gazing at the little patches of wildness that we have deliberately left to flourish. Every once in a while I got down on my hands and knees to look more closely at nature’s bounty. And all the time my soul was singing, “Glory Hallelujah!”
May you spend time meditating on beauty today and always. My your soul sing, “Glory Hallelujah!”
May you walk in beauty.
Yesterday this male wood duck posed for me beside the pond. I never tire of gazing at these beautiful birds.
“The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.”
― Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
“We have often heard that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This is usually taken to mean that the sense of beauty is utterly subjective; there is no accounting for taste because each person’s taste is different. The statement has another, more subtle meaning: if our style of looking become beautiful, then beauty will become visible and shine forth for us. We will be surprised to discover beauty in unexpected places where the ungraceful eye would never linger. The graced eye can glimpse beauty anywhere, for beauty does not reserve itself for special elite moments or instances; it does not wait for perfection but is present already secretly in everything. When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary.”
― Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
“When you regain a sense of your life as a journey of discovery, you return to rhythm with yourself. When you take the time to travel with reverence, a richer life unfolds before you.”
― Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
I planted Solomon’s Seal beside the storage shed a long time ago. Look how it has spread and created it’s own little patch of wonder.
“We respond with joy to the call of beauty because in an instant it can awaken under the layers of the heart a forgotten brightness. Plato said: ‘Beauty was ours in all its brightness…Whole were we who celebrated that festival’ (Phaedrus).”
― Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Yesterday afternoon
Shy violet hiding in the hosta plant
Impressionist morning glory
This is my chicken wire blueberry bush protector. If you look closely you can see two blueberry bushes inside the chicken wire. The wire keeps the deer and rabbits from eating the bushes. When they bloom I’ll also need to put a net over the top to keep the birds from eating all the berries.
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