Beauty with a captial B – Part 1
I have been avoiding this post, because it is a tough one. But the time has come to tackle the essence of Beauty, try and put it in words. Beauty with a capital “B”.
One thing I know about Beauty from personal experience is that it is spontaneous and unpredictable.
Winding around a mountain bend, Joni Mitchell echoing from the speakers of my car
I see one yellow tree
in a sea of green, painting the slopes of a rugged snow capped peak
pushing up against blank blue sky… Beauty has an element of surprise. Beauty does not cow to expectations, it is a rebel and most importantly it is nebulous and unpredictable.
Damn Beauty! In that way, Beauty is scary. Because Beauty is unpredictable it compels us to panic, a little. Why? Because Beauty is a human need.
We need Beauty because it informs us about what makes life worth living. In some mysterious way, Beauty is the evidence of our own personal connection to that which is life giving and life affirming.
Without Beauty we are destined to a very isolated, bleak and dreary life.
This all becomes very interesting when we explore the association between women and Beauty and contemplate that Beauty is the expectation placed upon us as women. Think about that for a while….
continue with Beauty with a Capital B – Part 2
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Amelia
Shannon, thanks for the very rich dialogue.
My spontaneous thoughts:
Beauty is a messy and effortful endeavor. As nature shows us with her glorious patterns and infinite scales of beauty, it’s not always easy or straightforward. Achieving a taste of effortless beauty almost certainly requires some tedious gardening. As a dancer, my most “effortless” and “beautiful” motions rise out of years of cultvating myself in this specific way. How to find effortlessness and spontaneous beauty in even the most choreographed of situations/routines/relationships?
When i tend to myself, to the way i look, it is becoming less about how i appear to others and more about how i FEEL. how i feel in my clothes, in my hair in my body. How i walk in my new boots and swing my hips to feel my skirt brush against the back of my thighs. Am i expressing the full power of my self all the way through to the socks that i choose? suddenly these things seem to matter very much to me. every single choice i make about myself matters…my underwear, my makeup, my shoes are all an expression of who i am and where i want to go.
Oct 28th, 2009
shannoniris
“Am i expressing the full power of my self all the way through to the socks that i choose? suddenly these things seem to matter very much to me. every single choice i make about myself matters…my underwear, my makeup, my shoes are all an expression of who i am and where i want to go.”
YES YES YES!
I can feel your Beauty from here!
Oct 28th, 2009