Any Given Wednesday...

Ok, here it is 10:52 on a workday morning and I'm reading & writing stuff on Zaadz again instead of working. I work for myself, so no one is going to bug me about this unless I don't finish the deadlines on my desk, but that is a distinct possibility if I keep this up, so I won't do anymore to fill out this woefully under-drawn representation of myself except let you know I do have three other blogs, & give you the links.

My main blog is called The Beauty Dialogues. (And I also write two others; one on Art & the Environment reflects my nature-freak side which is actually pretty much right out there anyway, and All is Light is a photo blog I started as part of a digital photography class).

But back to the Beauty Dialogues - this blog is about one of the low-grade obsessions that has been there as a foundation throughout my whole life. I could call it any number of things, of course, but it's always the same thing... the awe and wonder at the center of everything. The absolute perfection of the pattern of wholeness we're all a part of, whether we actually like the way it looks at any given moment or not.

My work in the world is in online design - I design websites and blogs and create the 'look & feel' of the environment for community forums like this - and much of what I am interested in professionally is how this sense of 'beauty' at the center plays out in the world of design.

I don't mean just how 'beautiful' we can make your website look, visually (although I think that has something profound to do with the way we feel when we are in its 'field'), or how well it works and how beautifully form and function fit together (also extremely important :-) but how keeping an awareness of beauty plays out in the way we live the rest of our lives, too. The choices we make about how we go about communicating & doing business with each other, what we notice when we walk out the door in the morning, what is important to us and why.