The Detective of Beauty

  By putting a frame around something, you are setting that thing off and calling special attention to it. Poems are framed by white space.

  By lifting something out of the noise of its daily context, you may be able to say to someone else, hey, this is kinda cool, kinda  beautiful.

    There's a lot of beauty out there that hasn't been noticed, that hasn't even been found yet. The photographer is the detective of beauty.

    The more we learn to see, to recognize the beauty that is out there, the stronger we get, the better we can deal with the ugliness.  Maybe by an act of mental magic we can transform that ugliness into the beautiful.  We learn that what we thought was ugly was never ugly at all. That beauty had a certain edge to it, a sharpness. Perhaps that beauty touched something inside us we were afraid of, so we called it ugly.

    I could be more specific and less general, but I don't wish to chase you away.

    It's not cleanliness that is next to Godliness.  It is beauty that is next to Godliness.

    So indulge your own sense of beauty. Show it to us. Perhaps we too will learn to see the beauty there.