Billions Of Moments Of Beauty

 

So many people feel that the world's sorrow must prevent us from being happy. We feel guilty if we are not weighed down by the suffering we see endlessly magnified by the echo chamber of the media. But the media seldom attend to the billions of moments of beauty, the myriad little acts of kindness, happening all over the planet right now. They only see momentary shocks of violence, and repeat them over and over, creating the illusion that the violence is constant. Yet in between those momentary noises are vast territories of silence, of gentleness and creativity. Now, more than ever before, it is important to be happy on earth.

A flower photo by Kristy Thompson