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Today is a Beautiful Day

good call, it's getting shitty and cold here but sometimes there are nice days. Some days i feel great and others shit, that's life. To quote modest mouse if beauty only comes with pain then i'd rather never see beauty again or something like that lol. I always felt that way too, if there were a good balance of joy/misery i'd be better adjusted.
 
One of the things that my son taught me while he was here is that every day is a beautiful day. The day is much more than just our experience of the day. It exists no matter what horror is enacted by human beings, as a miraculous day like every other. We will have our experiences within that day but to call it anything other than beautiful is somewhat egocentric. This is an irony that I experienced on the day my son died. The sun came up with an unbelievable softness. Birds sang. The ocean rolled in and sucked out and rolled in again without skipping a beat. All this timeless beauty happened without my son, happened unaffected by the magnitude of my grief. My day began my nightmare but "the" day was in fact quite beautiful. It is worth thinking about when everything is dark and horrible and full of pain. Beauty is always there. You can ignore it or seek it. It is abundant and free and you can touch it. When you do touch it, it heals. I thank my son for the gift of this perspective. He did not live a long life but his perception was that of a person that had lived many lifetimes.
 
it's much easier to see the beauty in nature; in an industrialized city, smoke, smog, pollution, desperate people everywhere, drugs/prostitutes all over the place, things start to seem a bit grim.

nature is a wonderful reminder of the beauty of the universe and of life itself.
 
It's been gloomy and rainy, but I've been loving every minute of it.

Dawglaw, Thank you so much for making this thread and reminding us that there's *always* hope. <3
 
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