B is for Beauty

Beauty is defined as:  a quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as   harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality. B is for beauty today, in all of its various forms and expressions.  Transitioning from one stage of life often requires a seeming darkness followed by the revealing light of a new form.  

I am transitioning into my final human expression thus fulfilling my purpose. I am and have always been an expression of happiness.  As a child, I had to hold back because I didn't want to offend the adults around me, I had to learn the rules of "getting along" here in our family structure. "Don't make so much noise!"  "Be quiet! Sit still."  Time for school!  "Be this way or be that way!"  A lot to learn but the good thing is people were trying to ensure that I would be a good citizen when I grew up!  Thank God they really had good intentions for me, so it was restrictive to my self expression but not intentionally harmful.

As an adult, I had to hold back and figure out how to fit into the social structure into which I was born... so I held back some more... "testing out the various social scenes" thinking I would fit into that whole.  What was really cool and what was not, what job to take, what career to have... do I even have a chance at a career? What should I do in the world?  Do I need a Guru? Is this the right Guru? Should I stay in an ashram or have a family life? Sh.. or get off the pot!" Asking and exploring along the way, taking chances, taking advice, some that worked and some that didn't, "try it you'll like it!" followed by "icky, ach! yuck! I don't like it, its not good for me! or maybe I'm not doing this right!" but mostly trial and a comedy of errors!

So many "social groups" or "cliques" as they are called.  What we call "life" is rather funny as we (or I) sometimes "bungle our way" through thinking that what others think of us is more important than what we think of ourselves.  We sometimes (too often) do what we think pleases others... and that is one of the hardest things to do!  Too bad it took so many years to get to this point of simply caring primarily about what I think, but then perhaps that was just part of my journey to full expression.  I still care about what others think, but only in terms of how I am impacting them. I don't want to be the cause of another person's pain.

But first I have to recover from the damage of that experience, which is requiring that I "cocoon" or "withdraw" myself.  I know that my true nature loves truth, harmony, beauty, expansion, adventure and peace all along the way.  

These days I don't want to allow anything to stand in the way of that continued experience. so I share a few photos that others took that I think expresses some of what beauty means to me. The first is a photo of a universe, the second is me and my grand-loves at the Marin Headlands beach, the third photo are flowers of the Earth, a butterfly of the Earth and finally the beautiful marble like photo of the Earth as viewed from space.  Really that is what I am all about!  Love and peace to everyone; today and everyday. Be well and be happy!