A COMMUNITY OF BEAUTY: THE UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF PETERBOROUGH June 2019

JOURNEYS Monthly Theme “Un-Pack-It”

A COMMUNITY OF BEAUTY

PHOTO BY BEN WOLFE THE UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF PETERBOROUGH

WONDERINGS on the theme of BEAUTY “Notice what’s at the front of the “Notice what’s behind it all!” From the folks at Soul Matters protest march!” Our own Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, Where do you look for beauty? UU minister Sean Parker Dennison “The world is not painted or adorned, There is universal agreement that we all writes, “The ability to see beauty is the but is from the beginning beautiful; … must make time to visit museums and sit beginning of our moral sensibility. What Beauty is the creator of the universe.” before stunning sunsets. But seeking we believe is beautiful we will not The Quaker theologian Rufus Jones beauty there is not enough. Every wantonly destroy.” With this we are writes, “Beauty has no function, no religion agrees: The secret to reminded that beauty does more than utility… It greases no wheels, it bakes no encountering spiritual beauty is to visit soothe and heal. It demands. It calls. It puddings. It is a gift of sheer grace, a and observe the unlikely places. Indeed, creates commitment. It doesn’t just say gratuitous largesse. It must imply behind one could argue that this is the job of “Love and appreciate me.” It says things a Spirit that enjoys beauty for its religion. It exists to teach us and to help “Protect me! Fight for me!” It’s steps out own sake and that floods the world us observe beauty in the less noticed in front of us and points to a precious everywhere with it… Our joy in it shows places. Just think of all the seemingly world that needs our help. It paints a that we are in some sense kindred to the odd advice that religion sends our way: picture of new ways of living and giver and revealer of it.” “Notice your feet!” declares, “Follow me there!” It’s not just Here we are reminded that beauty is There’s a beloved poem by Chilean poet what nurtures our activist efforts. It’s the more than an elegantly painted portrait. Pablo Neruda about a pair of his socks. reason we take to the streets. It is also the artistic force of the universe In this and other poems, he brings the “Notice yourself!” that is constantly painting us. Pulling out ordinary things around us to life, helping Again beautifulIssue things are not justDate the beauty in all-that-is to create the us see how they so clearly carry the objects to be appreciated and adored. portrait that is life. memories and meanings of our lives. They are not pretty things we purchase So, yes, by all means, get yourselves to Religion does the same. It tells us that and possess. They possess us. They are the museum. MakeMonthy time to gaze at the these ordinary objects are not just containers for pieces and parts of color-laced sky on your evening walks in background but beautiful partners. They ourselves. We don’t just observe them; the woods. But don’t forget to visit the don’t just enhance our relationship with we pour ourselves into them. They don’t unlikely places and the beauty that the world and each other; they are just sit there; they open themselves up awaits you there. among the most important relationships and invite us to spill our longings, we have. They are fellow journeyers in memories, hopes and hurts into their and of themselves. care. When we observe them, we observe and re-member ourselves. A COMMUNITY OF BEAUTY: June 2019 2

A STORY about BEAUTY

Treasure Stones ~ Janeen K Grohsmeyer

In a time not so long ago and in a place The trees and the flowers and the not so far away, there lived a boy animals in Canada were all new to named Arthur Lismer. Arthur always Arthur, and all of them were had a pencil in his pocket, because beautiful. He traveled to many Arthur loved to draw. He drew clouds. places, going to the mountains He drew birds. He drew flowers. He and the prairies and the lakes and drew many beautiful things. And he the rivers of that great land, drew pictures of stones. painting pictures of the things he saw. "Why are you drawing a boring old he would usually In his pictures, people could see a river stone?" his friends would ask. "They're say. "Let's see what we can find. Let's of snow flowing down a mountainside. just... gray. They're just... rocks." see." They saw trees with great gnarly roots "Stones are beautiful," Arthur told all twisted together. They saw a "I found a stone," a child said, one day. them. "Just look. Some stones have church and houses surrounded by "It's just gray." gold flecks. Some have tiny crystals. In fields of grain. They saw gray rocks "Let's see," Arthur said. He licked his the rain, a stone can change color. In colored bright red by the setting sun. finger to get it wet, and rubbed his the sunshine, it can sparkle. Every They saw a tree bowing in the wind, finger on the little stone. The stone stone is a treasure; every stone is and above it, little white clouds turned pink and then purple and then beautiful. Just look!" following each other across the sky gray again. "It's like a rainbow!" the Arthur would draw pictures anywhere, like little ducklings in a row. child said. anytime. He drew in the morning at People hadn't seen that before. They Arthur took out his pencil from his the breakfast table. He drew during hadn't realized just how magnificent pocket (he always had a pencil) and lunchtime at school. He drew on Canada was. "Just look," Arthur said. drew two small dots on one end of the moonlit nights outside, surrounded by "Look and see." stone, and then a long curving line on trees. He drew on train rides through the other. "It's a mouse!" the child the countryside. He even drew on Many people bought Arthur's pictures said. Sundays in church. to put in their homes. People put his pictures in schools, and in offices, and He turned the rock over so they could "Put that away," his mother would tell even on postage stamps. see all the little spidery lines in the him, and so Arthur would close his cracks. "It's a like a map!" sketchbook and put his pencil in his Five years after Arthur came to pocket, and he would listen to their Canada, he became a teacher in an art Then sunshine came, and the rock minister at the Unitarian chapel in school, showing people how to create began to sparkle. "Now it's silver and Sheffield. But sometimes, he would art. Not just with paper and pencil, but gold!" the child said. "It's like treasure." still be thinking about drawing. with wire and cloth and felt and "It is treasure," Arthur said. feather and bits of rock and all kinds of When Arthur was thirteen, he went to things. The child nodded, holding tightly the a school just for artists. After he stone that was a rainbow and a mouse graduated, he sold his drawings to On Saturdays, he taught classes in a and a map and a treasure. "It's my people. But he didn't make very much museum. People of all ages came, all treasure stone," the child said. "I can money at it. in the same room. Parents learned see that now” right along with their children. Arthur So, when he was twenty-six years old, would talk for a while about the What kind of treasures do you see? Arthur decided to leave England and paintings, about the artists who https://tinyurl.com/y4eeeogj sail across the Atlantic Ocean, all the created them and where and when the

way to Canada. He got an ax and paintings were made. And then, he chopped up his desk, and he used its would ask everyone: "What do you see wood to build a trunk. He put some in that picture? What do you think it To receive these monthly packets clothes and his drawing paper and his means? What do you like? What kind by email, sign up to be on UFP’s pencils into the trunk, and he moved of beauty is there for you?" to Canada. email list. Send a request to On Sundays, he taught children at his [email protected] Unitarian church. "Let's go outside!" A COMMUNITY OF BEAUTY: June 2019 3

INSPIRATIONS on the theme of BEAUTY We can argue about the reason for We must first allow ourselves to be CURIOSITYthe universe and the meaning of the captured by the goodness, truth, or DEFINITION universe but not about the beauty of beauty of something beyond and beau·ty the universe… We all share beauty. It outside ourselves. Then we /ˈbyo͞odē/ strikes us indiscriminately. It may be universalize from that moment to noun when our child was born into this the goodness, truth, and beauty of 1. a combination of pleasing world; or a simple flower; or a song; the rest of reality, until our aesthetic, intellectual, or moral or a smile on a face; or a great act of realization eventually ricochets back qualities 2. an excellent specimen or the courage; or a dance well done; or a to include ourselves! ~ Richard Rohr pleasing features of something child’s laugh; or a loaf of bread This a wonderful day. I've never seen 3. the best feature or advantage of baking; or finding a worthy job; or a this one before. ~ Maya Angelou something. snowfall; or when drawn to the If only our eyes saw souls instead of synonyms: attractiveness, Source of Life itself. There is no end prettiness, pleasingness, to beauty for the person who is bodies how very different our ideals comeliness, allure, attraction, aware. ~ Matthew Fox of beauty would be. ~ anonymous benefit, lure, boon paraphrasing Ernesto Cardenal Human beings have a hard time Word Roots: In difficult times, carry something regarding anything beautiful without The Greek word for the beautiful is beautiful in your heart. wanting to devour it. kalon, related to the word kalein, ~ Barbara Brown Taylor which includes the notion of ‘call.’ ~ Blaise Pascal There is something about beauty Beauty is the object of longing. That which is striking and beautiful is that tugs at us, pulls at us. We're accustomed to thinking that it not always good, but that which is A second Greek word for beauty is is the beautiful thing that causes good is always beautiful. hōraios, from hōra, meaning "hour." desire to erupt in us, but perhaps ~ Ninon de L’Enclos Beauty was associated with "being that is not always, or even usually, of one's hour". A ripe fruit was considered beautiful, whereas a the case. First, we long. We may not young person trying to appear older even be conscious of our longing, but or an older person trying to appear because we long, what we long for younger would not be considered eventually finds an object in the beautiful. world, and upon that thing our The Ancient Greeks also equated hearts and imaginations become beauty with harmony and virtue. fixed. ~ Crispin Sartwell Beauty is not a static experience but one of being in the rightness of the At some point in life the world’s moment, an expression of the beauty becomes enough. You don’t divine. need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record

Beauty, as a philosophical concept, is of it needs to be kept and you don’t Beauty disciplines our hearts to joy rather mysterious — a slippery elf, need someone to share it with or tell like riverbanks nudging the current hard to catch hold of, impossible to it to. ~ Toni Morrison in Tar Baby ever closer to the sea. define. But let me try anyway: In each moment, expect a miracle: ~ Priscilla Stuckey Beauty is that which glistens on the ten kinds of birds at the feeder, and edges of our yearnings and lures us the tracks of a fox in the snow. Pick Spend all you have for loveliness; into the depths of things. up a magnifying glass and scrutinize Buy it and never count the cost… ~ Patricia Adams Farmer that crocus… Be astonished at the ~ Sara Teasdale Beauty isn’t all about just nice flower, arrested by its beauty. Run In my youth I am aware of it loveliness, like. Beauty is about more naked through the garden early in and in my old age I shall walk quietly rounded, substantial becoming. So I the morning and hope the wild geese the beautiful trail. think beauty, in that sense, is about fly by. ~ Elizabeth Tarbox In beauty it is begun an emerging fullness. In such ugly times, the only true and in beauty it is ended. ~ John O’Donohue protest is beauty. ~ Phil Ochs ~ Navajo Blessing A COMMUNITY OF BEAUTY: June 2019 4

As always, don’t treat these questions 6. What’s the most beautiful thing QUESTIONS for like “homework” or a list that needs to you’ve ever seen? REFLECTION on the be covered in its entirety. Instead, 7. What did your family of origin teach simply pick the single question that you about what it means “to be theme of BEAUTY speaks to you most and let it lead you beautiful”? where you need to go. The goal is to 8. What parts of life have grown more figure out what being a part of a beautiful as you’ve aged? community of beauty means for you and your daily living. So, which 9. What’s something you know now question is calling to you? Which one about beauty that you didn’t know contains “your beauty work”? when you were 16 years old? 1. When were you first healed by 10. Is beauty a private thing for you? beauty? Or do you need to share it with someone for the experience to be 2. When were you first protected by complete? beauty? 11. What if beauty isn’t something we 3. When did beauty first teach you encounter but something we become? something? 12. Who in your life needs told they are 4. When was beauty a doorway to the a beautiful soul? divine? 13. Have you ever experienced a 5. What makes a beautiful soul? What “beautiful goodbye”? do you do to beautify your own soul? 14. What’s your question?

PRACTICING BEAUTY … The practice of savoring life’s gifts Option A: The Beautiful Thing You Carry Option B: The Beautiful Thing You Protect The philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, “In difficult times, carry Rev. Sean Parker Dennison writes, “The ability to see beauty something beautiful in your heart.” is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is These are indeed difficult times. They require courage, beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.” commitment, hope and self-love. And all of them are Rev. Mary Katherine Morn writes, “Beauty does more than sustained by beauty. We find the awaken us. It also admonishes us. It demands something… courage to fight after falling in love We are here so that together we might heed the with a beautiful vision to fight for. admonitions of beauty. Answer its call to create, protect, We maintain our commitment only and preserve.” by finding the beauty that Beauty is more a salve. It does more than restore and nourishes us. We hold on to hope sooth. It creates commitment. It lures us into loving it and because experiences of beauty becomes something we can’t live without. We end up remind us that something in the willing to give our lives for it. We protect it at all costs. universe is on our side. We withstand dehumanization when rooted deeply in the beauty of our So, what is that beautiful thing you protect at all costs…that own dignity. core beautiful thing you defend like a mama bear because you know you’d be lost without it? For some of us, it’s a form It’s one of the most important secrets to successful social of nature. For others, it’s a type of justice. For still others, it’s change and social survival: When we carry beauty, it carries a way of treating each other, like kindness. Or treating us. ourselves, like self-love. Whatever it is, we all build our lives Get clear about the beautiful thing you need to carry. Or are around it. Look closely and you’ll notice how deeply it defines carrying. Whether that be in your heart, head or literal us. By protecting it, we protect ourselves. pocket. Take some time to think about the source of beauty Get clear about that piece of beauty that turns you into a that sustains you. And then find one way that will help you mama bear. After all, isn’t getting clear about it is what life is carry it with you in a more consistent way. all about?

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Option C: Enter the World of Ordinary Beauty Option E: Remind Yourself that You are Pretty ______! We’ve all had those moments. The ordinary suddenly appears extraordinary. One minute the objects around us “Will I be pretty?” It’s more than a song whose tune is stuck blend into the background, sit there as “things.” The next in our heads. For so many of us, it’s a burden stuck in our they come to life, so clearly carrying meaning and memory. skin. A big part of being a people of beauty is wrestling with What once seemed possessions, now somehow possess us. the way culture’s conceptions of beauty have distorted and They are a part of us. And us them. All it takes is a different disrupted our relationship with our bodies and souls. kind of attention for their appearance to change. When it Poet Katie Makkai takes this head on in her poem Pretty. In happens, it’s beautiful. it, she unfolds the challenge of reclaiming and transforming Make some time to lean into this sacred form of attention the call to be “pretty.” and re-enter this world of ordinary beauty. Start by exploring You are invited this month to turn her call into a spiritual the poets and poems listed below. Consider them guides. exercise by completing one (or maybe all) of these Helping you navigate your way into this sentences: beautiful and precious space of noticing “I am most proud of the fact that I am pretty in a deeper way. ______.” Respond to the pieces in any “I hope my child knows they are pretty way that feels natural. ______.” Maybe you’ll write an ode of your own. Maybe you’ll “I love my partner because they are pretty spend a little more time ______.” touching, smelling or sitting “I never knew I was pretty ______until with the lovely things that ______helped me realize it.” surround you. Maybe you’ll pull “The moment I realized I could be pretty one of those lovely things out of ______was when I ______.” the pile it’s been lost in and put it “I still want to become pretty ______.” in a place you pass by each day. Your work will become clear after you watch the video: Ode to Things - Pablo Neruda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7TS2Z6lAI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz82ikSllKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GOkypeafdM Option F: Find Beauty in Our Recommended Ode to the Watermelon - Pablo Neruda: Resources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRTXVYGqT_k This packet contains lots of resources full of wisdom about Burial & To the Fig Tree on 9th & Christian - Ross Gay: what it means to be a people of and a person of beauty. https://tinyurl.com/y2uab3gy Engaging these resources and finding the one that especially To the Mulberry Tree - Ross Gay: speaks to you is a spiritual practice in and of itself. https://tinyurl.com/y575fgur So, if none of the above exercises call to you, engage the Ode to the Women on Long Island - Olivia Gatwood: recommended resources section of this packet as your https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqpip0H1QTE spiritual exercise for the month. Ode to Thrift Stores - Ariana Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZJoU44uOo A Personal Reflection on Neruda and “our things”: WHO CREATES THESE PACKETS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRiCUqi-4Y4 We subscribe to “Soul Matters,” and Rev. Julie Option D: Family Journey compiles each packet using those resources combined with many others. Contributions are Take a tour of a nearby park and notice the beauty and always welcome! variety in the trees. What if all trees were supposed to look like a social construct from a cartoon? Invent personalities for Service Leaders and Covenant Group facilitators work the trees, i.e. these 5 cedars are a little wild, as they live in with Rev. Julie to incorporate the theme into our the back of the park. They have a secret rock band they play programming & Sunday Services. Would you like to in when no one is around. share your talents and ideas? September’s theme is EXPECTATION.

RESOURCES on BEAUTY MUSIC Now I Walk In Beauty (Navajo CHILDREN’S BOOKS on BEAUTY Prayer) arr. by Gregg Smith Music is often the key to opening us https://tinyurl.com/y29n6nbv up. Which song is calling to you? And if none of these speak to you, do a Not A Pretty Girl ~ Ani Difranco little searching and find “your beauty https://tinyurl.com/y4y6m26w song.” Check out the Spotify Live: https://tinyurl.com/y4gw7nl2 list: https://tinyurl.com/y26xx44y Scars To Your Beautiful Beautiful World ~ Colin Hay ~ Alessia Cara https://tinyurl.com/y5vd82nn https://tinyurl.com/y5qzbcv2 A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Grace VanderWaal cover: Horace Pippin ~ Jen Bryant Beauty In The World ~ Macy Gray https://tinyurl.com/y3whknvb https://tinyurl.com/86nu8fq Dance response: Beautiful Blackbird ~ Ashley Bryan A beautiful cover! https://tinyurl.com/y5vd82nn Dog Eared ~ Amanda Harvey https://tinyurl.com/y29otas3 The Season of Mercy The Flower Garden ~ Eve Bunting Beauty Is Before Me ~ Carrie Newcomer The Gardener ~ Sarah Stewart https://tinyurl.com/y3sra3zg https://tinyurl.com/y647t94e https://tinyurl.com/yydm3dun I Like Myself! ~ Karen Beaumont The Way I Am ~ Ingrid Michaelson Cinderella: "Do I Love You Because On the beauty of being loved... The Magic School Bus Explores the You're Beautiful?" https://tinyurl.com/y5brmc5n Senses ~ Joanna Cole https://tinyurl.com/y28e4xa3 Miss Rumphius ~ Barbara Cooney When the World is Sick For the Beauty of the Earth STLT #21 ~ Silver Mount Zion Orchestra The Rough-Face Girl ~ Rafe Martin https://tinyurl.com/yxzsrqgm and Tra-La-La band Summer Solstice ~ Ellen Jackson Note: this video is not the most recent https://tinyurl.com/yxug8676 UU version; it is sung with “Lord of All” Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature instead of “Source of All.” ~ Joyce Sidman MOVIES How Could Anyone? ~ Libby Roderick That’s Not a Daffodil! ~ Elizabeth Honey A Beautiful Mind (2001, 12) – After https://tinyurl.com/y4ce4nqm Wanda’s Roses ~ Pat Brisson a brilliant but asocial Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus: mathematician accepts secret work https://tinyurl.com/y4cd8hul in cryptography, his life takes a turn A Beautiful Planet (2016, G) – An for the nightmarish. exploration of Earth and beyond as seen from the International Space Station. Incredibly beautiful images of our planet. TABLE GRACE on B E AU T Y Beauty and the Beast (2017, PG) – A selfish prince is cursed to become a Wind, Water, Sun (adapted) monster for the rest of his life, unless ~ Rev. Seth Carrier-Ladd he learns to fall in love with a Wind that whispers through the willow trees beautiful young woman he keeps Sun and earth that sustain us prisoner. Water that washes over willing earth and weathered stones Doctor Zhivago (1965, A) – The life of A smile shared and savored a married Russian physician and poet A child’s squeal of delight as she dances in the daisies and daffodils who falls in love with a political The quiet joy of gathered community activist's wife and experiences This is the spirit of life and love that we call forth into our shared meal. hardship during World War I and then May this spirit infuse our hearts, fill our souls, and carry us forward like a the October Revolution. The stark wave on the ocean as we come to the table with gratitude. expanse of Russia’s natural beauty https://tinyurl.com/y5poakun has never been captured so beautifully on film. A COMMUNITY OF BEAUTY: June 2019 7

MORE MOVIES: The Body Is Not an Apology: The witty, and ultimately profound Life is Beautiful (1997, PG) – When Power of Radical Self-Love meditation on what is beautiful. ~ Sonya Renee Taylor an open-minded Jewish librarian Truth & Beauty: A Friendship Offers radical self-love as the balm and his son become victims of the ~ Ann Patchett to heal the wounds inflicted by Holocaust, he uses a perfect A tender, brutal book about loving these violent systems. A world- mixture of will, humor, and the person we cannot save. It is renowned activist and poet invites imagination to protect his son about loyalty, and being lifted up us to reconnect with the radical from the dangers around their by the sheer effervescence of origins of our minds and bodies camp. someone who knew how to live life and celebrate our collective, Local Hero (1983, PG) – An to the fullest. enduring strength. American oil company sends a ON THE WEB man to Scotland to buy up an Embracing a Beautiful God entire village where they want to ~ Patricia Adams Farmer Can Beauty Save the World ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn build a refinery. But things don't Fifty-two short, imaginative, and “Dostoyevsky once let drop the go as expected. often humorous essays lies a lively enigmatic phrase: “Beauty will Real Women Have Curves (2001, "spirituality of Beauty" from the tradition of process theology. save the world.” What does this 12A) – A first generation Mexican- mean? For a long time it used to American teenager on the verge of On Beauty and Being Just seem to me that this was a mere becoming a woman agrees to ~ Elaine Scarry phrase. Beauty had provided work with her mother at her Defends beauty from the political embellishment certainly, given sister's downtown LA sewing arguments against it and argues uplift—but whom had it ever factory. that beauty does indeed press us saved?... perhaps that old trinity of This Beautiful Fantastic (2016, toward a greater concern for Truth and Good and Beauty is not PG) – A young woman who justice. An elegant, passionate just the formal outworn formula it dreams of being a children's manifesto for the revival of beauty used to seem to us…” author makes an unlikely in our intellectual work as well as https://tinyurl.com/yy7lh65g friendship with a cantankerous, our homes, museums, and 52 Frames - Photography rich old widower. classrooms. Challenge Site Old in Art School: A Let these photographers help you Memoir of Starting Over experience the beauty around you ~ Nell Irvin Painter through a new lens… Memoir about The Sky: returning to school - in https://tinyurl.com/y3mwu3vg her sixties - to earn a Common Objects: BFA and MFA in https://tinyurl.com/y3u43gvz painting. She finds Religion: meaning in the https://tinyurl.com/y44euozb artists she loves, even as she comes to Hands: understand how they may be https://tinyurl.com/yxv3a5z6 undervalued; and struggles with Magic Hour: the unstable balance between the https://tinyurl.com/yxgydy55 BOOKS pursuit of art and the inevitable, 4 Ways Our Socially Accepted sometimes painful demands of a Beauty: The Invisible Embrace Beauty Ideals Are Racist life fully lived. ~ John O’Donohue ~ Rachel Kuo “An enchanting meditation on Six Names of Beauty https://tinyurl.com/y6emelaz how beauty lays its claim on the ~ Crispin Sartwell human spirit in such disparate Beauty may be in the eye of the realms as music, love, beholder, but it's also in the imperfection, death, and desire.” language we use and everywhere ~ Maria Popova in the world around us. An elegant, A COMMUNITY OF BEAUTY: June 2019 8

ON THE WEB, continued The Beauty of a Second - visual Beautiful Body ~ Natalie Nature’s Beauty as a Gateway meditation Patterson into Deep Time and a Lens on the https://tinyurl.com/y2hl2u9o https://tinyurl.com/y3ht4o9j Interconnectedness of the How Beauty Can Heal Us ~ Shots Youth React to Being Called Universe ~ Maria Popova of Awe / Jason Silva Beautiful “Standing amid the rainforest — a A meditation on the soul-shaking, https://tinyurl.com/zucejeq heart-stirring power of beauty. place governed by the beauty of The World Reacts To Being Called You become what you behold. So interrelation — Sacks reflects: ‘The Beautiful choose carefully what you behold. sense of deep time brings a deep https://tinyurl.com/y5obsmtz peace with it, a detachment from Chase beauty friends, so you The Joy, Grief and Beauty of the timescale, the urgencies, of become it. https://tinyurl.com/y2ulqgrf Caring for an Aging Parent - TED daily life… a profound sense of Talk being at home, a sort of https://tinyurl.com/yylzvthk companionship with the earth.’” https://tinyurl.com/yxfl4bvn City Vérité “A video series that illuminates Street Artist JR Ends Mexico the life and beauty of various Border Installation with Picnic world cities by capturing the on Both Sides breathtaking, intimate, and eye- https://tinyurl.com/y4nuo93c catching moments from a single Ugly: How Beauty was Built day in that city’s life.” We upon White Supremacy ~ recommend starting with these Vanessa Rochelle Lewis two: “In this essay for Gaza City: #BodyPositivityInColor, Vanessa https://vimeo.com/131154055 Rochelle Lewis explores the New York City: concept of “ugly” and how it Body Positivity https://vimeo.com/124534647 depends on white supremacist, or Body Obsession? - TED Talk Beauty Interpreted - Picasso’s colonialist, cisheteronormative, “Women are suffering because Guernica, Explained to Passersby misogynistic, and ableist they are seen as bodies first and in a NYC Subway constructs of what defines beauty. people second. So rather than https://tinyurl.com/yybkuq5c She explores these ideas through working to make sure more history and how it exists and women’s bodies are viewed as PODCASTS thrives within our current society.” valuable, we are focused on The Inner Landscape of Beauty - https://tinyurl.com/y6q6w6m7 making sure that women are John O’Donohue: On Being Podcast Wabi-Sabi: The Art and Beauty of valued as more than bodies to “No conversation we've ever done Imperfection ~ Utne Reader view... https://tinyurl.com/y38ur7ff has been more beloved than this one. The Irish poet, theologian, https://tinyurl.com/y47qpvjp The Body Is Not An Apology ~ and philosopher insisted on beauty Sonya Renee Taylor as a human calling…” VIDEOS Lean into the blessing, beauty and https://tinyurl.com/yyq8y6al There is Beauty in Not Knowing - divinity of your body…

video and spoken meditation ~ https://tinyurl.com/y6lgj4zl Richard Feynman Explores beauty through the eyes of physicist Richard Feynman: emotional, visually beautiful, The Unitarian Fellowship of Peterborough intellectually evocative. Sunday Services @ 10am @ 775 Weller St https://tinyurl.com/bpe2b35 www.peterboroughunitarian.ca Pretty ~ Katie Makkai [email protected] https://tinyurl.com/yy8vvzks 705-741-0968