I love writing.  I don't love when you're almost done with a post and you accidentally click something else which navigates away from your page, thus tossing to the cyberwind your labor of love.  Balls.

I was writing about beauty, as was the topic for women's circle, which i missed.  I'm gonna sum it up...
Physical Beauty:  I dont have it.  That's ok with me (really, it is).   I don't care if you have it (really, i don't).  That's all i can say for the beauty on the "outside".  I'd rather talk about something significant.

I try not to limit  a definition of beauty, what it is or what it is not.  Once you give something a firm explanation, a set of rules is formed that will rule out anything that doesn't fit.  I promise that will lead to many missed opportunities.  I want to experience beauty, not fit it into a tidy little box. 

Beauty can (and does) live in every moment, every thought.  Its a force (much like the force, yes i'm a nerd) which is an entity all its own. Some of the most incredible beauty in my life has come from the greatest suffering.  In all its varieties, it may exist solely to move us from where we are to where we need to be next.

I want to see something new.  Show me who you are, what it is, where it comes from.  Present something familiar in a different way.  Change my mind.  Cry on my shoulder.  Watch me fall in love with you each day, maybe twice a day.  I want to recover, only to crumble again. 

I realize it may seem like i'm babbling a bit.  But have faith, the train of thought is pulling into the station.

Beauty is the art of living.  It's being alive above and beyond breath and a pulse (which i'm currently learning how to do).  Appreciate what is there and what is not there for what is there and not there. 

Here are some quotes that present a better case for beauty than i did...

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” - Albert Camus

“Beauty is not caused. It is.” - Emily Dickinson