Beauty demands our attention.
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Beauty demands our attention.
It deserves our attention.

Janelle McCulloch recently wrote about “quiet beauty” and how it kept her going through the last year; her words truly resonated with me. Beauty, whatever kind is my therapy during these crazy months we have all experienced. You can read what she wrote on Instagram here.

“Quiet Beauty”, what a wonderful expression.
Beauty can be caught in a glimpse, in action, with a word or an experience. It doesn’t have to be grand or all-encompassing but a small dose every day is like therapy to me. We need to remember our own small worlds can be as beautiful as our global lives once were. I don’t need to board a plane, catch a train or hike a trail to steal my fix of beauty. Searching for and acknowledging our own “quiet beauty” is the way to open our hearts and nourish our minds when our familiar pastimes are challenged.
How do you find beauty in your everyday"
Observing comes easy to me. Taking note can be as determined as a particular search or as random as a gaze outwards. It can have no rhyme or reason and conversely, I can be looking with great intent. Searching for my small dose of beauty takes me through my most-loved books and down the rabbit hole of social media. Arranging and re-arranging florals is a must-have tonic for me as is studying the architectura...