For me, beauty possesses an immense and powerful subjectivity. I love the paradox contained in the fact that beauty both nurtures us AND threatens to destroy the acquisitive ego. As a FOUR ("The Romantic") on the Enneagram Personality Typology, I'm especially sensitive to the powerful aspects of beauty. I believe that's why I've never liked the word "pretty." Beauty is NOT domestic or capable of being domesticated! I've spent my life in the quest for ways to come to terms with Beauty's power, to find a union with Beauty, one that melts or destroys the ego into something much Greater and more Vast. Here, it is as though Beauty forcefully takes me over, STEALS my vision, and makes my awestruck wonder the vehicle through which SHE becomes "turned on" to Her own amazing grandeur and glory!
Photos: (Top) Glacier Lilies and cascade; (Middle) Colorado
Columbines and Bluebird Lake; (Bottom) Rosy Paintbrush and
Bluebird Lake; All three photos were taken on the Bluebird Lake Trail,
Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, July 13, 2015
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