Beauty is who you show up as: finding self-worth beyond youth

“Beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is.” - Ursula K Le Guin

Yesterday I attended the 1st birthday party of the youngest of my 5 grandchildren.

We all think our grandkids are the most innocently beautiful things we have ever seen - of course we do. There's a few million years of evolution that have gone into that emotion.

As folks become older, and less innocent, it sometimes becomes more challenging to see the beauty in them - but it is just as important.

Perhaps most important of all though, is the ability to see the beauty in ourselves.

On a Monday morning, when you have to "go again" and manage your own Imposter Syndrome, other people's Dramas, and an endless sequence of transactions, notifications and decisions.......

Please read agin and ponder the above quotation.

Beauty is who you show up as today.