(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
Stories, poetry, silence: What it seems to say
You’re in for an incredible treat.
This is poetry, a gateway to collective healing with the incredible poets and human beings Marie Howe and Pádraig Ó Tuama.
Water: our first mother
John O’Donohue’s poem
In praise of the grace of water.
Watch it emerge and wend it’s way to the arctic ocean in these photos accompanying John.
Journey to the end of the universe: Laugavegur
From Skogar by foot: along a mind-boggling series of waterfalls, between glaciers, over volcanoes, across braided glacier melt rivers and through into sulfurous lunar Landmannalaugar.
Come with me across this field
Wherever you are
is called here.
So now the ears of my ears
awake.
My feet encounter
the soft forest floor.
3 poems read by Kari
Behold: The sky is on fire
You turn up your face, back bent,
arms outstretched, so that if the sky
scoops you up, you will be ready to be lifted.
…
From this moment on,
you regret nothing.
Windows and corona: what you’ve opened so far
Are we, and will we build, back better? As we live into this great viral transformation, the corona(tion) that’s been rushed upon us, here are some of the pictures and thoughts submitted so far to love in the time of corona—windows that are opening and closing for us
sp/ns The window: holding love and pain simultaneously
With coronavirus pain are windows of hope opening too? How do we help find what the world is trying to be? Here’s the simple please, not simplistic sp/ns version. Audio, video, pictures and poetry of love.
Marianne’s poem: Mayan for clarity
The wind assured her that he would recite her poem before each sunrise… By Earl King and Malcolm King-Fontana. Click for the full poem and/or play it, read by Greg Brown. “I would like my name to be Kumasaka, Mayan for clarity coming…”
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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