Party Hearty!

November 9, 2014

True, deep Beauty is reflected in the life force that is present all around us – it’s a joyous, sometimes riotous party given by the entire Universe.  We’re always invited, though too often we don’t attend.  “Attend,” pay attention to… ..     Look up, look around!   Look out your window – there’s a gorgeous party going on!

Natural Beauty

November 2, 2014

  The natural world is often a human being’s first introduction to and relationship with external beauty – the True Beauty without.  In our current urban-central, agri-business world, unfortunately too many people develop only a “nodding basis” with the natural world.  Sadly, it is no longer a central reference point for the culture. Yet our … Read More

What is meant by “The Way…”

October 26, 2014

What is meant by “The Way…” So, here I am going on about The Way of Beauty.   Lou asked me what the heck that was about… so here goes: The ancient Chinese developed Taoism from “Tao” meaning “path” or “way,” specifically in reference to their ancient studies of the Universe and its ways, or paths … Read More

Shifting Paradigms

October 19, 2014

How did we get to the point we are at today in our modern western civilization?   How did greed, corruption and selfishness become so prevalent?  How did our lives get so busy, our frustrations so many, and our sense of contentment and achievement so hard won? We live in an atmosphere charged with the expectancy … Read More

Once upon a Time

October 12, 2014

Once upon a time, somewhere in the winter of 1980, maybe, my business partner and I were driving north up a gray Interstate 89 on our return home from Montpelier, Vermont from yet another all-important business meeting. A few years earlier I had invented the sports bra, the then-named “Jogbra,”  and was creating what would … Read More

A Manifesto for True Beauty

October 5, 2014

 A Few Bold Philosophical Statements All contemporary crises can be reduced to a crisis about the nature of beauty.                                                                         … Read More