Post Tagged with: "beauty"

  • time to stand and stare

    time to stand and stare

    It’s the morning after the morning we remembered the mourning and celebrated the Morning. D has risen early again, because it’s Monday and time to move into a new week of busyness as usual. I want to burrow down under white down, but there’s a light that shines in the [...]

     
  • god our enemy?

    god our enemy?

    As we watched the opening ceremonies for the Summer Olympics, I was struck by how beautiful everyone was. It seemed like an unending parade of beautiful people. “There aren’t this many beautiful people in Hollywood,” I said to my husband. “I think all people are innately beautiful,” he replied. “It’s [...]

     
  • book review: when Beauty pursues you

    book review: when Beauty pursues you

    I’m not even sure that she understands me now when I tell her how beautiful she is. She’s only 14-months old, but I’ve been telling it to her since the very day she was born. I guess I could stop and wait until I know she can not only understand [...]

     
  • i wish i had her eyes…

    i wish i had her eyes…

    The pre-spring afternoon was warm, layered in pollen, and begging me to go to the beach. But instead, I sit on my couch watching the sparrow play in our front yard, with the dryer drowning out the singing birds outside. I pass the time by working my way through Ann [...]

     
  • created with character

    created with character

    You made all the delicate inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous–how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together [...]

     
  • the path

    the path

    At least four inches of snow had fallen. It was much too cold and much too early for my muscles to be aware of what I was asking of them. I forced on my boots, grabbed my hat and gloves, and slipped out the front door. I was met immediately [...]

     
  • found art: capture [beauty] photography project

    found art: capture [beauty] photography project

    This is one of those projects that I expect will blow me away as people like you share to bring together an amazing act of creativity. This creative photography project was inspired by the memoirs of Leeana Tankersley called Found Art: Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places. This book is a series of stories from Leeana’s [...]