Keats once wrote: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”, and he was quite right.
Here’s a piece from Jamie Wilson at PJMedia, and she has the right of it too:
Our exterior world isn’t harsh or ugly, not like the concrete fortresses of Brutalism or the boxy little cars of the Eastern Bloc, but neither is it beautiful. It is merely acceptable.
And beauty matters. It’s not decoration, it’s expression, a way of saying that life means something, that creation itself is worthy of reverence.
Read the whole thing. It could have been written by me — especially the parts about cars and architecture — except that her article contains no anger or cursing.
It’s a delight, and thankee to her hubby Clark for sending it to me.
