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Meditations

Beauty making waves

5/16/2016

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Beauty is a wave thing. Of course, there are some particles involved. And if you’re a hair-splitting nuclear physicist who can explain the difference between a neutron and a neutrino and thirty nine different ways this may impact the retinal perception of anti-matter, you might have a valid counter argument or two. But for me, beauty is a wave thing.

   There is just something in the way that beauty clicks into place in my perception, which is like a radio tuner hitting the right frequency. You’re surfing the airwaves, all sizzle and hiss, out of sorts and irritated, and then voilà, you’ve hit the beauty spot. In tune. Music to the soul.

   We say that an issue or concept resonates with us, meaning that it appeals to us in some personal way. But it is a musical term we are using or at least a sonic term – to “produce or be filled with a deep, full, reverberating sound” (Oxford Dictionary). And what is sound other than waves?

   That gut feeling stirring you to the bone like the bass line from a song when you see something aesthetically pleasing, that is resonance. That is beauty – filling you with a deep, reverberating feeling.

​Beauty making waves.

​PS: For more beautiful waves, look at these wonderful photos.
5 Comments
Avriane Maritz
5/26/2016 03:02:56 am

Ek voel net so sterk oor 'beauty'. In toenemende mate vind ek dit in alledaagse situasies en gebeure. Die gefluit van 'n voel buite my kantoorvenster op die 14e vloer - hoe hoog vlieg hulle nie on daar te kom nie. 'n Wolk in die lug in die someraand. Musiek, musiek, musiek. Is dit in orde om in Afrikaans te skryf of liewer Engels?

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Ilse
5/26/2016 06:10:20 am

Avriane, dit is iets wat my ook al meer en meer tref, asof ek, soos ek ouer word, elke dag meer gesensitiseer word om skoonheid raak te sien, raak te hoor. En dan is mens verwaand genoeg om dit te probeer vasvang in kuns of woorde! Tog is dit soms dat "afbeelding oortref weer die werklike ding" (Elizabeth Eybers in "Weerkaatsing").

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Avriane
5/27/2016 03:25:38 am

Ken jy die Navajo Indian Prayer "In beauty may I walk"? Ek is 'n stapper en kan net "amen" se daarop.

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Ilse
5/27/2016 03:28:25 pm

Net so. Sien ook my woorde oor die Woordhuis elders op hierdie webwerf http://www.colourandquill.com/house-of-words.html

Avriane
5/27/2016 07:15:16 pm

"Our deeper feelings are not of ourselves alone, but are glimpses of a reality transcending the narrow limits of our particular consciousness - that the harmony and beauty of the face of Nature is at root, one with the gladness that transfigures the face of man." - Sir Arthur Eddington - astro physicist.

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