(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
Hollow Top: its changing faces
Our future has an ancient heart and you can feel it beating! Tour Hollow Top and it’s changing faces. Imbibe beauty across the seasons and aspects.
Green renaissance: graceful people doing the extraordinary
Green renaissance is a tiny collective of 4 passionate filmmakers dedicated to making films that inspire. Dive in for graceful stories of the extraordinary.
Stuff me in a backpack: hike as far as you can
When I die. Plan A. Don’t mind the laws or conventions. Stuff me in a backpack and hike as far as you can into the Rockies or Tobacco Roots or Crazies.
Early, closer and in-between: a wordsmith indulgence
Early? You've done enough already.Go closer: lean in for genuine presence.In-between: imbibe and be moved by an extraordinary wordsmith 3 short audio pieces for your Monday!Early Sunday afternoon. Monday morning. Maybe we've done enough already? This is a set of 3...
This too will pass: why rush through?
So why rush through anything? Why hurry with closed Hands and heart through this moment? — Kari King This too will pass Not just what you are struggling with today, The tired attempts to push away the many things you fear. Not just what you will be challenged by...
Time for the wild: we’ll never regret it
This gorgeous video, a cinematic journey across Scotland, is calling us to dive in. We never regret time spent in the wild. We won't regret re-wilding it. Play video ↓Time for the wild It's a strange thing, life and an even stranger thing is time. No liven thing knows...
Pinnacles: lofty spaciousness
Your task is not to seek for love, but Merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — RumiNew Zealand peaks Peaks have a unique pull. Whether you climb them, admire them, vicariously walk them or feel the lofty spaciousness...
Why I eat late: For Mary Oliver’s Why I Wake Early
The night is another world. Everything– no matter how disparate – belongs. — Kari KingWhy I Eat Late The night is another world. Everything- no matter how disparate - belongs.When the day breaks, we re-memberthe separation that we are taught andforget that there is...
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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