Beauty...

In my free time, I enjoy reading fashion and beauty articles. (Some of my favorites used to be a series written by Anna Johnson for MSN. She no longer does this because she's had a child now and is currently covering motherhood via her book and blog, The Yummy Mummy Manifesto.) I came across an article today that gave me some inspiration. "Beauty - the qualities that give pleasure to the senses or exalt the mind," or so says Webster. Wow. I never really thought about it in those terms. So much of our society relates beauty to appearance. I like Webster's version better......pleasure to the senses -- which I forget means sight, sound, taste, sense, and smell. Wow....cake is beautiful not only based on it's decorated appearance but by the way the fork goes through the layers, and the aroma, and the sweet, sugary taste of frosting as you lick some from your fingers! (Not that I'm eating cake these days.) And...exalt the mind -- now there's one that blows me away. Qualities that exalt the mind. I could hang on this thought for days -- probably will. Let's hope that I can possess the qualities that make me beautiful, not necessarily by sight, by through the exalting of the mind. Whoa! Wow! (Wow -- that's apparently my word this week.) Now there's something to think about.