Fabricating Beauty

**Sit quietly, eyes closed and in silence for one minute before reading.**

    Technology increases and our ability to fabricate beauty does as well. Colors are more vivid, eyes widened and legs diminished. Beauty becomes an image rather than a three-dimensional thing that we can touch, smell, see all around and hear fully.

    As beauty becomes more and more fabricated we settle for the two-dimensional image on the screen. Rather than visiting the Grand Tetons we exchange an image for the real thing. Rather than smell the aroma of sweet fruit plucked in season we settle for a scratch and sniff sticker.

    So we settle, beauty and life is fabricated and we settle. When we settle we begin to exchange these images for the real thing. We lose an aspect of the joy and gift of being human, the gift of being able to see, touch, feel and be within beauty.

    How will you choose to be in real beauty today? How will you choose to be in beauty rather than live in images of the real thing?

**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**