Ordinary Aesthetics

Sensitivity to aesthetics can become second nature if you attune yourself to it.  I am naturally drawn to truly beautiful things like an internal flame.  I side with Plato - Real Beauty is inextricably connected to the Good, and the Good with God.  
As I have pondered the beautiful things in my life I am content.  I am grateful.  I want to cultivate this sensitivity in my children.
In a world fraught with ugliness in attitudes, morals and behaviors, it is hopeful and refreshing to acknowledge goodness and beauty.


Today, I want to acknowledge Japanese civility as a source of good and beauty.

"Fall down seven times, stand up eight"

~Japanese Proverb

And . . . no pushing!