Beauty cries out to be shared. It need not be polished, nor shiny, nor bright, nor new. Beauty is everywhere, if only we choose to see it. And yes, I believe the perception of beauty is something that improves with practice. Practice looking for it, and you’ll soon see it everywhere and in everything.
Beauty
dwells in everything
we see
true beauty need not be
pristine
true beauty, is bettered
by age
and mystery…
There is an expression which states, “The devil is in the detail.” In any country chronically obsessed with the letter of the law, this expression is extraordinarily true. Indeed, perhaps the expression should be updated to reflect current times. Maybe to something along the lines of, “The Devil dwells in legalese.”
Mistruth undeniably finds a much easier abode in complexity than it does in simplicity. However, the deliberate framing of complicated duplicity into law is not the focus of this post. My focus today is the importance of our perception of the tiniest details.
How important are these little details? In the past I’ve written on how a butterfly’s breath changes the world. To me, and I believe to every living creature, details are that important.
I am constantly delighted to find evidence things other than devils dwells in the the tiniest details. Sadly these miniscule elements often go unnoticed. Below are two photographs I took using my cellular device {I refuse to call it a smartphone as it completely lacks any intelligence.} I must stress that these photographs are completely unedited. They exist precisely as taken, at my device’s full resolution.
Since they are images of things I find mysteriously and inexplicably beautiful, namely flowers, it strikes me as fitting they should contain undeniable evidence of love. After all, aren’t beauty and love cohorts in the same emotional domain?
Examine them and see what you find. But be warned, you may need to hone your eyes…
Even as flowers begin to curl and die, their beauty remains.
Even their blemishes are symbols of beauty.
No, those speckles are not photographic artifacts.
Beauty and natural color so vibrant and spectacular my camera literally cannot capture it.
If you’re viewing this page with a cellular device you may not have the ability to click on the images to see them at full resolution.
Too bad…
Our most fundamental needs are for water, food, and shelter.
Or are they?
What of air? Is our most fundamental need, not air?
Air is the product of what? The component of air that is oxygen, {about 20%} is produced by trees, which also filter air by removing excess carbon.
So perhaps our most fundamental need is for trees?
No, I don’t think it is that either. I think our most fundamental need is for beauty. Thankfully beauty abounds in virtually everything, and virtually everywhere. All we need do is seek it, and we find it.
Is the air not beautiful? When it is clean it is, but when it is dirty? Well, the air is still beautiful, but the pollution we pump into it? Not so much. So I must ask you this, if pollution is not so beautiful, why do we produce so much?
Our most fundamental need is not air, water, food, shelter, or beauty. Our most fundamental need is for everything. You see…
Everything
matters.
Everything.— C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) April 29, 2015