Beauty is the sap of my life.
It is as close to a physical manifestation of love as anything I can know.
I find it everywhere.
It fills my lungs and pushes the blood into my heart.
It makes me gasp with dandelion’s breath, it makes me cry loping crocodile tears.
Beauty lifts me out of this particular time to a larger one…
…and yet freezes the second hand on my life’s tick-tock watch.
How different we all are in this wide world and yet we all have been kissed…
…by its grace.
Pink kisses maybe. Brushed lightly across our forehead.
The touch of creativity’s spark…
Straight into the best of who we ever are.
Cue music……
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Thank you Sister!! Methinks creativity runs in the family!!! Oooh, maybe one day you will let me reprint the lyrics to one of your songs and I could do a little photo essay for it? Hmm…Love you!
Ah, there are worse things non, belle Helen? 😉
It is Cheryl. I am very, very aware of it always.
Sister – this is SO BEAUTIFUL, your words and photos!! And I take the hues in like a drunk person, having only seen variations on grey for the last umpteen days. Thank you for the words, too – methinks you are a poet (and, perhaps, a philosopher)! Thank you for this very inspirational post – a visual treat for the soul.
Hello Heather
What inspiration and as I look at your wonderful pink shies, this Florida morning is a soft orange with peach tones. Oh, on that note I wish you a day of beauty and pink kisses, I shall resort to peach kisses I suppose.
Fondly,
Helen xx
These photographs are just stunning!! Such a gift to live in an area with the beauty of rich history and natural beauty.
Merci my dear friends. I have been looking forward to sharing these photos so much! One would have to be comatose not to appreciate the light we have in Provence. But again, thank you for your compliment. You both never cease to inspire me…
Gros Bisous,
H
Thank you, Catherine. You too! Off to do a bit of yoga, which I know you will appreciate…
Hello Heather:
There are all too few people in life who really do appreciate and emphasise with the beauty of the world which is to be found all around and often in the least likely of places. You are one of that number.
This IS a lovely post, both in words and images.
I'm speechless Heather…such a beautiful post.
Have a lovely week.
Catherine
xx