February 2011
youngdoo
They say beauty is everywhere—and so it is. It’s fair to say, though, that beauty isn’t evenly distributed, and most of it goes unnoticed. Much of it is transitory—momentary beauty entirely dependent on a brief aliveness of light, or the soft seduction of shadow. Or the unexpected reality of a pair of pink flats on a modular school desk beside a potted plant.
Not all beauty manifests itself in a gasp. Sometimes it reveals itself as a sigh. Sometimes beauty leans into you with the welcome comforting weight of a large affectionate dog. And if you’ve a mind to, you can lean back into it.
Perhaps the only thing more wonderful than transitory beauty are those people who notice it. I don’t know YoungDoo Moon, the woman who stopped in the midst of the mad rushing world long enough to lean into the singular beauty of this moment. I don’t know her, but a part of me loves her. Part of me loves whoever put those pink flats on that modular desk. Beauty may not be evenly distributed, but it truly is everywhere and people like YoungDoo Moon not only notice it—they carry it with them.
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