Life is Beautiful! The Beauty we Create

When I look at a space in a home, I see potential. I move furniture around in my mind, imagine colors on the walls, and place fireplaces and chandeliers freely. It is important for my (currently very small) personal space, my homestead-- to be organized, clean and above all pleasing to the eye, and in turn pleasing to my mind. The way my furniture is arranged is important for optimum space, functionality and mobility which was well thought out; as was the specific type and style of items I have chosen to display in my home such as vases, tables and chairs. Minimalistic as possible, least amount of extraneous items that I need.


Maybe you are out of a job, or perhaps your company is encouraging you to work more from home to save on overhead costs--but either way more and more Americans are spending more time at home. I think this is great! Not the jobless part, but the homebody part. Being at home is awesome! You have all your stuff around you, you can wear your boxers to work, you can take your dog on a walk--it totally rocks. The issue I am bringing up is beauty. It's important, that if you have not yet, to take some time arranging your space in a conscious manner to better please your minds eye. It is a total relief. You will understand once you begin to do it, and start to see the results. If you are bad at this ask a friend who has a gift to assist. Oh and don't forget to put the toilet seat and lid down--its totally bad feng shui.

If we like having our personal space as an oasis, organized to our standards of comfort and beauty what about the rest of the world--as our space? I guess my point is that if we tried--in everything that we do, to make it beautiful and comfortable can you imagine how much better this planet would be for it? For our morale? If the dumpsters in my alley were painted in rainbows instead of green, or shaped in a geometric way (which I am sure was a topic of high importance at Waste Management), or people were constantly writing in chalk on the sidewalks, and everywhere I went people were flying kites. Now I was just going off there, but there are an infinite number of things that we can do to create beauty in the world. It's up to you.
I was walking down the street the other day in my neighborhood with my dog Jelly and I saw that someone knit a sweater on a tree and I laughed, how awesome! I could just picture some mad knitter in the wee hours of the evening nervously knitting away lest they be caught! This simple action gives so much and takes nothing away from anyone. It is perfect. The tree pictured is a bit more than the simple 'tree-warmer' I saw, but no less fantastic.

I think perhaps a good meditation is to remember that we are all creative people, whether we choose to explore it or not. We create our own lives & situations everyday, whether we are present about it or not. Adding a little beauty to it never hurt, and please add it in your own unique way as that is the only acceptable form.