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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder – But What If There’s No Beholder?

February 27, 2010 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Half-hidden flowering tree comes into view. Photo by BF Newhall

A flowering tree grows hidden in the canyon below our house. If no one sees it bloom, is it beautiful? Without a beholder, can there be beauty? Read more.

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Hope-y New Year! Here’s to a hope-filled 2022. Not because hope will solve the climate crisis or end the culture wars. But just . . . because.  Read more.

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