(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
Edges: light and timeless
Wild edges, small islands, the middle of the North Atlantic. These are places where we melt, become timeless, spaces beyond interpenetrate us.
Expanse: isolation and connection
From the wilds of the far northern Atlantic coasts. The near impossible, being alone and deeply connected to humanity, comes viscerally alive in the wind.
A key: enclosures
Bring diverse pieces together and the new can emerge.
This New Year’s enklavene arose from stumbling across earth, fire, water and rock coming together. That diversity created the heart.
Wildness: you’ll find it
This is a photo series on our ongoing evolution.
The series is monthly enklavene: illustrations of cultural and social entities (us!) entriely encolsed within, and creating, wider enclaves.
Solstice: narrated walking meditation
Please join us for this virtual walking meditation.
24 hours, in 10 minutes at Calanais. You-I-we will step through time. Physically it is 2021. Virtually, millenia in the past and future.
Rannoch moor: and wild beauty
A short trip over Rannoch Moor down to Kinlochleven then across the sea to Skye.
Scotland has its wild surprises. Some in poetry and pictures.
Last breath: requiems, grief and joy
For friends, family and life everywhere. Hold our breaths with Ane Brun and Robert Louis Stevenson. Land, light, song-poems and storm reflections.
Hearing rhythms: stochastic patterns and music medicine
Rythym, randomness and healing with, and through, our deeper interconnections. Aligning with our wider world its chaos and patterns .
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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