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Just Beautiful...
A friend recently asked me what I thought was beautiful. There are several definitions of beautiful:

Beauty
1 : the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit : LOVELINESS
2 : a beautiful person or thing; especially : a beautiful woman
3 : a particularly graceful, ornamental, or excellent quality
4 : a brilliant, extreme, or egregious example or instance
5 : a quantum characteristic that accounts for the existence and lifetime of the upsilon particle; also : a particle having this characteristic

Now I don't know about the fifth one...upsilon particle my ass. But I like the first one...qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.

Yeah...that's the one.

The old adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder is so true. One may find beauty in a thunderstorm, but another may find terror. One may find beauty in a bumble bee, another may find themselves in pain.

What I find beautiful:
A sunset that makes me pull the car over and just stare.
Songs sung by Enya.
My brand new, still in the cellophane, hardbacked copy of Swan Song.
My children.
Watching someone reach out a hand to help another.
Watching someone with courage who musters through adversities.
A hot fudge sundae.
My cat as she goes to sleep on my chest.
The twinkle in Mikey's eye when he's getting frisky.
The roses I grow in the summer.
My corvette.

These are things that pleasure me in my mind and spirit. So therefore, they're beautiful. People can be beautiful. Johnny Depp pleasures me (don't I wish) not just because he's nice looking but because I like the whole package. He's something I can admire from afar. Owen Wilson pleasures me. Some may not find him beautiful because he's got that wierd nose thing going on. But I like what I see, from his personality to his blue eyes. I have friends who are beautiful. Not because I want to jump their bones, but because of who they are.

So yes, my friend, beauty is in the eye of the behold, but also in the mind, spirit and heart. And to me...you are beautiful.

Cat