Beauty

So something happened at the beginning of the year that halted my blogging.  Well, really a lot of things happened...  But one of those things I've been meaning to write about for over 6 months.  It made me reconsider beauty, and how important it is to this life.

December 31 Donna Stauffer's life ended, rudely and unexpectedly.  She was my drummer's mom, one of my biggest supporters, and my friend.

She loved beauty, anything that made life more than ordinary.  Later in life she started taking piano lessons, and learned how to make pottery.  She treasured music and art, and came to as many musical performances of mine as she could, almost always wearing a pair of earrings Aaron had made.

Andrew, her son said that through her life she added beauty to the world.  Each action, each piece of art, each note of music, each kind word, her very presence.  The essence of beauty.

We have a lot of choices in life.  We don't get to chose who we lose, or when or how.  But we do get to chose how we spend each day.  Donna inspired me.  I want to choose, like her, to add beauty to the world.

~In memory of a life of beauty~