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Tag Archives: beauty
Beauty, Awe and Gratitude Become One
Thanks to Frank J. Tassone at the d’Verse Poets Pub for suggesting we write a haibun exploring one of the myriad things for which we feel gratitude. I’m always pondering the whys and wherefores of our human sense of aesthetics. … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, Consciousness, dVerse, Gratitude, Meaning, Nature, Poetry, Trees, Writing
Tagged beauty, consciousness, d'Verse Poets Pub, Frank J. Tassone, General Grant grove, gratitude, haibun, Kings Canyon, poetry, sequoia, Sierra Nevada Mountains
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NaPoWriMo: Describing Abstraction Concretely
Beauty Always Pierces Beauty always pierces through the breastbone like an angel’s arrow angling down, gliding through tissue, splicing spine. I could die of pleasure, transported, but where to go that’s better than this world, where every pebble, puddle, … Continue reading
An Opinionated Aesthetic
All my life I’ve loved to read, but being a writer I have read more about writing than about reading and read much more than I have ever written. So I got to thinking I might get some writing tips … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetics, beauty, E.M. Forster, John Travolta, Michael, reading, writing
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Random Acts of Kindness, Senseless Acts of Beauty
I first heard the words “practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty” from Margret Pavel at one of the Women’s Alliance Summer Solstice Camps I attended annually for many years She got them from Anne Herbert who … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Consciousness, Herstory, Meaning, Women
Tagged Anne Herbert, beauty, collage, community, consciousness, kindness, Lakshmi, lovingkindess, Margret Pavel, Pierro Ferrucci, random acts of kindness, spiritual practice, spontaneity, Summer Solsctice Camp, summer solstice, The Power of Kindness, Women's Alliance
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MA’AT
A most moving visual meditation on balance, equilibrium and finding the center of gravity that expresses the Egyptian concept of ma’at, which assumes that the cosmos is based on a rule of harmony. By striving to maintain harmony in one’s life … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Consciousness, Love, Meaning
Tagged balance, beauty, equilibrium, feather, grace, harmony, ma'at, presence, transcience
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