beauty

"Beauty isn't always carefully planned and programmed. Sometimes it's just a matter of slowing down and giving the mind and soul time to be reflective and responsive, and then looking or listening and going with what is seen or heard. The writing, the music, the painting the art will begin to open doors as it advances, without my always knowing where it is going or what the end result will be."

How true is this quote? Sometimes we try too hard t find beauty. We spend money to go on a cruise or go across the country. We feel like going to a unfimilar place brings more beauty to us when really it is in the simple things that are usually around us. The bad thing about the fimiliarity is that people get bored with it, people forget that it is there. There is beauty in the the lake on our campus but its too close or we see it too often to find too much beauty in it. We define beauty with money such as "a beautiful wedding" or "a beautiful dress" those things cost money when true beauty is often simplicity. It's the way a tree sways to the breeze, the way a bird sings to another. Beauty is in the way your little girl laughs or a the way traffic flows. Beauty does depend on the person but not just in any way, it's a person who has thought and realized with his mind what his heart desires.

The poem speaks of painting and art as an easy way to find beauty. Is that not the truth. Sit down and pull out your coloring utensils or perhaps pull out your guitar. It is in sitting still and let your surroundings resentates in your mind. Let your mind wonder, not to just anything that will cause distraction, but to the nature. Art and music will cause you to slow down and to relax. It causes you to think and wonder and in these times you will find that beauty is everywhere.