Honoring beauty requires honoring not only life, but death and dissolution.

It means trusting that when something as tender as a peony slips away back into the thrumming dirt, something new grows.

I know it’s not always easy to trust this … and I understand that change is often uncomfortable.

Yet the truth is, we are in constant flux—even with each breath we take, we’re changing, shedding, growing, dying, being reborn.

So my deepest wish for you today is that you worship the beauty around you.

Find a moment.

Pause. Capture it in your heart.

Let it penetrate the cells of renewal and joy within you.

Give thanks for the miracle of witnessing it.

And let it go…