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Beauty
“When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us… The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.” ― Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Come O Beauty, break open and embolden our hearts.
Beauty is a collection of posts on aesthetic and expansive experiences. Benevolution as art, poetry, travel and emotions catalyzing the synergy of evolution. You will find prose, pictures, poetry, audio and video here.
Recent beauty posts
Welcome to the slum
Where is her mother, her father? Does she even have a mother, a father? When was the last time she ate? Was that the last time she ever would? These questions, accompanied by so many emotions, continue to race through my mind. They keep me awake at night. Such a...
Lions and leopards and giraffes! Oh My! Part 2
Note: Once again, we are so appreciating your supportive, insightful comments. Asante sana! Swahili lesson of the day: Habari?-How are you? Sawa sawa-Ok/Fine Ndiyo-Yes Hapana-No Tafadali-Please Cordiya Breksana-Spinal Injury (just kiddin') Going on...
Lions and leopards and giraffes! Oh My! Part 1
Note: You can click on any of Malcolm's beautiful pictures to see them in a larger format Today's Swahili Lesson - The beauty of Swahili is that it truly is a phonetic language, just sound it out! The difficulty is that anything spoken in Swahili at 1000 miles per...
Black & White Isn’t Black & White
We arrive in Nairobi after 20+ hours of flying and lay-overs on an overcast but still sultry night. Stepping off of the plane, we are transported to a new and mostly unfamiliar position of being in the minority. In some places there is a smattering of white-skinned...
Nairobi says Karibu (welcome)!
A quick note from the charming Fairview Hotel (built in the 1930's). The hour is late and tomorrow morning is an early start as we begin our adventure with a few days on safari. We will be out of internet range during that time so you can anticipate a break from...
Prequel: Falling apart to create something new
For me 2012 began with the domino effect; several moves, a couple of significant job losses, a small but attention-grabbing health crisis, and a son who was clearly not thriving in public school brought me to my proverbial and actual knees. I hit a wall. I couldn’t...
The Illusion of Security
On this, the day before our departure, I am contemplating a shocking reminder I received yesterday about the underlying premises of taking this trip. It has to do with living fully in the present moment, whatever that may entail. Which leads to connecting with what in...
Prequel, Adventures of The Heart
Heart-led adventures often seem to come after a significant change or loss, maybe a series of them, or a slow implosion of the old familiar ceasing to be meaningful or simply not working anymore. We may have researched and carefully planned these "trips" or we may...
Content
Beauty, transforming ~ benefit
Benevolution’s beauty stories primarily feature pieces that move and break open our hearts. We know our lives, our communties and our world changes through emotional responses. Rarely does logic wholly dictate our actions or values. So our expansive collection features:
- Other places, travel, the cultural insights alonside the dissonance these create.
- Poetry for glimpses into our souls and creating more expansive understandings.
- Our mental agility to hold seemingly mutually incompatible ideas simultaneously.
Click to see: travel, poetry and mental agility examples.
Catalysing, inspiring ~ benevolution
The stories for positive change on this site are across 3 broad categories:
- Beauty – that’s this page! See above for details and stories.
- Benevolutionaries – superstars, accidental heroes, inspiring intellects and everyone between. People breaking boundaries.
- Business – it’s meta-modern baby! Conscious collaborative climate and socially sane business is outcompeting our old modern model.
Background ~ better be…
(be) Benevolution aims to assist our deep longing. We are responding to a pervasive sense of the tragedies of our time and, simultaneously, experiencing an ardent awareness of possibilities. The site, its stories and perspectives are to help our agency and engagement – with the painful and the promising – for practical, ethical flourishing.
Stories from before 2019 are drawn from Kings Catch Fire and Greenmode – some of our previous explorations and engagements in personal, family, species, socitey and global thriving.
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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