One of the things in life that brings me great joy is beauty.  Beauty is an interesting concept. It can refer to something very superficial and commercial, especially in our modern era where beauty is made a commodity.  But for me beauty is a deep and complex concept… yet very simple, all at the same time.

I find many things beautiful. I definitely find beauty in both conventional and unconventional forms. What we find beautiful is often very personal. I find it also interesting that some people see beauty in very few places, and other people like me see beauty almost every where.

I’ve been enjoying the simple beauty of conventionally beautiful simple things today and unconventionally beautiful things too.  The crazy bouquet of flowers I put together from trees and flowers in our yard, and a few poached over the fence from the neighbour.  That’s the picture I snapped above. None of them are things I planted, but what came with the house… I really want to start making the garden ours this year. None of them are my favourite flowers, but they’re all beautiful, dogwood and lilac, tulips and blue bells.

The lilacs come from the neighbours. I love the scent of them, and would like to plant a tree in the front yard close to our bedroom window, and in the back yard close to mouse’s window too, so the scent comes in the house. I’d also like to plant irises and lilies, honeysuckle and jasmine, magnolia and oh so much more… We’re on a tight budget now, but sometimes they come up on freecycle and places like that when people want to get rid of extras from their gardens.  So I’m going to keep an eye out.

Beauty is powerful… every time I look at those flowers and recognize beauty my spirit fills with joy, it lights me up.  Flowers, like puppies, are powerful medicine. Beauty.  The amazing thing is if you look for it, you can find that it’s pretty much everywhere to be found, beauty. A lot of the time what we see is a choice… it’s subjective, for sure. Myself… I find it many places, and I focus on the beauty around me, in people, places, things, ideas, everywhere, every thing… I try not to focus on the ugly. I try to make that choice to look at the whole… and accept that both can co-exist.

Life is beautiful. Life is ugly. Life is ugly-beautiful, and beautiful-ugly..

beauty is truth, truth is beauty…

I’m rambling now.. random, like the inherited flowers in my garden.  so many metaphors in my head, here’s one of them… sometimes life isn’t what we’d ideally pick and choose. Life hands you things.  You can opt to be sad, because it’s not your ideal dream garden, it’s just what came with the territory… enjoy it anyways.

I must be feeling a lot better. *smile*