creating change without shouting
Beauty is not in a hurry. It doesn’t shout before it is ready, until it is formed in the secret place. Then it emerges, responding to light and love, and sings its transcendent song. ‘What is real is almost always, to begin with, hidden, and does not want to be understood by the part of … Read more
We often think about beauty with a hard, convergent lens. Homing in on the details and noticing the imperfections. Oh dear, what’s happened here? Yet this is such a narrow, shallow perspective, focussing only on the past or the future. On how things used to be, or what we might create ‘if only’. However, beauty … Read more
Beauty as a human calling: “Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness, like. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. So I think beauty, in that sense, is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth, and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of … Read more
‘You’ is one of my favourite Gideon Heugh poems. It reminds me that I am more than enough. Even in the face of heartbreak, failure or defeat, yes, even there, we are enough. And if this is true – which I fundamentally believe – then we don’t need to adopt a character to play our … Read more
This is where I start. No matter how much we’ve messed up – us, each other and the world around us – underneath it all is beauty. And it does matter what we hold as our basic tenet for life. Because it fundamentally shapes the direction we face, and that colours everything. This week two … Read more
There’s a good reason why they talk about photography as ‘painting with light’ (John Hedgecoe). So I find myself wandering around the valley, waiting for the sun’s rays to catch whatever I am noticing. And when it does, the result is extraordinary, bringing beauty to life. Similarly, there are times when light seeds simply illuminate … Read more