Today
Today follows the beautiful through the doorway of truth and onto the swing set, where the kids are already playing.
Buckminster Fuller said, ”When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
Andre Breton said, “Beauty will be convulsive or not at all.”
I subscribe to the idea that beauty is the ultimate criteria, that if something is useful, true, or interesting then it is also, by definition, beautiful. I also subscribe to the idea that beauty must push and make us uncomfortable, that beauty always tends toward stirring something deep in our souls, until whatever has accumulated around it is loosened up. Sometimes the only way to deal with that is, for example, to throw up.
This post is part of my commitment to #Trust30, “an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself”, being run by The Domino Project in conjunction with a new edition of Self-Reliance