(be) Benevolution
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
9500 years old: mind-boggling
A tree that in some way or another has lived almost 9500 years.
This ancient organism sprouted in the early neolithic period. Mind-boggling!
Solstice: enclosures
At solstice, the veil between ourselves and greater expanses is thin.
in the far north, or south, we can walk in 24-hour light.
Our enclosures expand. Beyond ourselves. Pause in the solstice light here.
Sagas: immensity, liberty, action
We are in and of our world.
In this enklavene breath in the immensity, sagas in landscapes and ourselves, with Walt Whitman.
At sea: and plenteous peaks
What widens us, asks Walt Whitman as wonders, sights and sounds roll off his writing into me.
This enklavene is the seas and water all around us, our approach to the oceans and the spaces these resonate within us.
Spring 2: lambs, lambs and lambs!
Lambs, lambs, lambs. For spring, for peace and for the life and vitality of the newborn extending light. Enjoy!
Sanctuaries: stillness, clarity, birth
“In your heart may there be a sanctuary”
This enklavene is from the clarity of spring, birth and the stillness it brings.
Enklavene: welcome home
An invitation to listen with all our senses. To the sounds of the sunset, to other creature’s homes
Pause and listen for sanctuary.
An enklavene: fractal
This enklavene is a set of fractals. We zoom in from the bottom of the mountain and the mini-cliff-edged sheep (she looks perfectly at ease!) to the mountain cliffs. And then to the rocks on top.
There are sets of repeating patterns all around us. Importantly, we create them too. It’s a foundation of change.
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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