beauty

“The world is suited to human enjoyment—”out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sign”—in anticipation of human pleasure, which the Lord presumably shares. This is an extremely elegant detail. The beauty of the trees is noted before the fact that they yield food. It is a rich goodness that the Lord intended

“And though attending to what we hate in common is too often all the rage (and it happens also to be very big business), noticing what we love in common, and studying that, might help us survive.”

Ross Gay, Inciting Joy page 10

“On this day of each year, Humanity wakes with the awakening of Spring, and stands crying below the suffering Nazarene” — Kahlil Gibran