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  "description": "What happens within us when we recognize something as Beautiful?",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-01-21T14:34:21.000Z",
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  "textContent": "_Wednesday, January 21, 2026_\n\nGood morning, The Wonder Fell Way.\n\nHow's the day? O/\n\nToo early for most to call morning; it's still yesterday in California.\n\nNight owls and early birds know a reliable peace so many forgot.\n\nTo remember the World's a beautiful place, we must remember the World.\n\nDawn is a good place to start.\n\nGetting good with the morning is always a great place to begin. (See the first line of these journal posts for proof.)\n\nWhat happens when we recognize something as Beautiful?\n\nThe sunrise is always in some way Beautiful. Regardless how you feel about poetry, you see it every sunrise.\n\nThe Sun arrives in a poem waiting for witness every morning.\n\nLet's title today's post: In Defense of Beauty, remember I'm a poet, and get to work.\n\nFirst let's clear up cosmetics and toss make-up and what we wear out.\n\nThose are discussed in another post. I'll link them here and here. And there's a whole lot of talk about Beauty here.\n\nWhat happens within us when we recognize something as Beautiful?\n\nWhat do we acknowledge?\n\nThe experience is more than just what's pleasing to the eye, to any of the senses. But there is a a kind of joy, a 'rightness' felt when we're in the presence of something Beautiful.\n\nThere are reasons why flowers are often seen as Beautiful. They're an easy example of the ways of Beauty.\n\nA seed that fulfills its greatest expression of itself shows the most Beautiful bloom.\n\nTheir choices are few but constant. What they do with the quality and quantity of light and water given them determines every flowers level of Beautiful.\n\nPeople work in the same way.\n\nWe do our best with the quality and quantity of the materials presented to us everyday.\n\nUnlike plants we can choose where and how often we get our metaphorical rain and sunshine.\n\nOur choices determine our lives. Beauty is the result of our witness of some epic choices.\n\nThe tallest, healthiest, scientifically soundest dandelion in a field of flowers is gorgeous to behold. A dandelion all alone rising from the cracks in an asphalt jungle is a thing of Beauty.\n\nAnd a very resourceful seed indeed.\n\nThat asphalt dandelion has a hero's quest for a life story easily recognized.\n\nSomeone who spends hours fussing and fixing their hair and fashion is also acting heroically.\n\nVanity doesn't make us Beautiful.\n\nSelf-care does.\n\nWe care about ourselves because life matters and because it does we're going to have the best one we can. We're going to show our best to the World.\n\nThat's hero's talk.^\n\nThat's an asphalt dandelion sprouting from cracks in concrete all alone early in the Spring.\n\nTake care, find your best light, and make wonderful this wonderful day.\n\n#### Wynn\n\nBrought to you by the emoji of the day: 🛎️ __bellhop_bell__\n\nArchaic Slab",
  "title": "In Defense of Beauty",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-31T15:54:32.207Z"
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