After the darkness of winter, as spring begins to rise, we remember the sun inside of ourselves. This is a moment of beauty.

I've come to think of beauty as a remembering. 

It is not what we are taught from the mainstream.

It is what's in the windows of the eyes, the innermost of the heart.

It is how we are when we are in the depths of our humanness. Our human emotions; sadness, anger, grief. It is when we're joyful; dancing, swimming, or singing. {Feeling is beauty}

Beauty is in the way we care for our loved ones.

It is in the ever unfolding of who we are. An opening, petal by petal, thorny stem and all.

We don't need to be dressed up for any of that. Yet the desire to dress up for the celebration of life is perfectly natural, too.

It has nothing to do with appearance, yet we have every right to feel beautiful in our appearance, no matter who.

Beauty is when we smile from the inside, and pass it along.

It is in the way a baby bird cracks open its egg shell.

It is in the way a seed opens, roots, sprouts, blooms, and unfurls.

May you come to know all the beauty in and around you <3

Words and photos by Rachelle

Powerful words of LOVE to reflect with...

“The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.”
― Teresa of Avila