There is power in beauty.
Deep down some part of us knows that there is value in the small things -- a beautiful leaf or an overheard melody or a kind word from a friend or a stranger -- that taken together can help us to intentionally assemble a lifetime of beautiful days. Yet somehow we have forgotten that the world was here before filters. Before photoshop. Before us. And still is in many ways that perhaps we are not.
We are not present. Not awestruck. Not fully alive.
I invite you to begin again. To see the full, limitless world that spreads out before us from the moment we open our eyes until the day that they eventually close fully. Every moment provides the opportunity to experience beauty.
To know joy. To be kind. To be here.
Right now there are blades of grass swaying against one another in perfect time with the breeze. There are silent shadows hovering with incredible grace. And gossamer seed puffs dancing on the breeze on their way to become future trees and leaves and weeds. They all seem somehow at ease with their windswept journeys and do not appear fear the dirt in which they eventually find themselves.
They do not worry. They simply grow.
There are as many tiny slivers of beauty in a life as there are grand vistas, but we often overlook them. We only see the big views or the vacation sunset or the pure joy in another's happiest days. A wedding. A new baby. A graduation.
A goal made real.
These are all important milestones, but they do not fill most of our days. We must wake up to the wonder of any given Tuesday and be ready to see what tiny mysteries lie ahead. Because it is in the seemingly bleak blank spaces between the big moments that the potential for a lifetime's worth of joy and beauty exists.
The possibility to be content.
Beauty is our birthright. It is always there. It is in us. It is around us. It will bring us home. To ourselves, to the world, and to the wonder and mystery of existence. There is truly nothing more powerful than the moment you realize that beauty abounds.
Now and always,
Emily Brynn Prouty
