I have seen the galleries of the

earth and the sky, and taken the

creative hand into my heart in

spaces of display and admiration.

 

This is beauty wrought from awe

at the handiwork of nature and its

creatures that are caused to make

and fold possibilities into the new.

 

But the beautiful to me is not a

question of aesthetics but of the

extraordinary in the ordinary in

moments as gifts to the other.

 

Beauty is judged as it presents its

face in art and music and drama

and the glorious flow of dance and

writing that pleases and also inspires.

 

The beautiful is unexpected, caught in

moments of delight, never for display,

but seen in care that is about renewal,

as the face that makes a claim upon us.

 

8/1/2026