Beauty
Thinking about today's world, we need to experience peace and beauty to soothe our souls. Take us away from tales of the madman in The White House. Take us away from images of the obliteration of Gaza. Push news about Sudan and Ukraine into the background. Blank out personal worries closer to home about health and family and money. Yes beauty can be a kind of medicine. Healing, sedating, a prism. And so in the vast Google library I sought a picture that would speak of beauty. I came up with the one shown above. It is in the Saatchi collection and it's called "Old But Beautiful". It was created by J.S. Ellington who is a resident of Abilene, Texas. She was born in 1948 and worked as a pharmacist for thirty seven years before pursuing her real passion - painting. Of "Old But Beautiful" she said this, "The landscape features an old barn I have painted before from different angles and in different seasons. I am so attached to these old structures. I...