Something Beautiful

Reims Cathedral

Six photo albums

Exterior, three albums --

General

East facade

West facade

Interior, three albums --

Nave and choir

Ancient stained glass windows

Modern stained glass windows

Doing Something Beautiful

For some weeks now I have been surrounded by rudeness, negativity, anger and highly personal attacks.   It is very nearly more than I am able to bear.   Sometimes I do not feel well enough even to search for an antidote.   Tonight I did, however, have the good fortune to stumble across The Joy of Doing Something Beautiful.   

I particularly liked the ending --

Intelligence and capability are not enough to solve our problems. There must be a joy of doing something beautiful. If you allow the divine force to flow through you, you will accomplish things far greater than you imagined.

Ken Trevey Print Collection

You are sure to find one or more works you like at this page on a UCSB exhibition of American prints of the 1930s. 

Graciousness

Graciousness is, to me, essential to the good life. Or even the endurable life. Here's a page of definitions of this life-saving, life-enhancing concept -- graciousness.

Wrestling ever anew

In recent days I have found the following quotation returning to my mind over and over again --

"I, who am truly no zaddik, no one assured in God, rather a man endangered before God, a man wrestling ever anew for God's light, ever anew engulfed in God's abysses, . . .

-- Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim

I need to remember that I too am "endangered before God, wrestling ever anew for the His Light."  It is helpful to know that someone of Buber's stature felt the same.