Beauty

"I can't say the word beauty without also equating it with the word transcendence, because it seems like there are so many different things that are beautiful to so many different people. But I think beauty is often an encapsulation of a lot of different things in a certain moment, a frame, let's say.

It could be music. It could be a poem. It could be an event. It could be in nature, and often, possibly most often, in nature. But, when that encapsulated form is received, there's a moment of reception and cognition of the thing that is, in some ways, startling."

 -Yo Yo Ma

Not yet.

I'm tired. I don't know if it's physical or emotional or mental -probably a combination of all of it. I keep wanting to leave, to pack up all of my things and go far away. Somewhere beautiful and simple, somewhere in nature, somewhere quiet. But of course, I cannot leave. Not now. Not yet. There is too much too be done, too many people to take care of, too much of me still being asked.