beauty – Wendy LeBolt

Complexity is temporary for the truthful. A web weaved by one who intends to deceive stays intricate, tangled, confounding. It’s meant to lose people along its way. But the person of truth breaks down the steps, untwists the turns, and unfolds the bending to free the one strand used to form it all. What a […]

The Lake and I played today

The Lake and I played today. We played peek-a-boo. We played hide and seek. We played with crayons, mostly orange. We played red light, green light. We played follow the leader. Which started me singing. Step by step, you lead me. I will follow you all of my days. So touched, was I […]

That’s just your reflection, silly!

This flower made me laugh out loud. Its tall, proud lavender bloom bending way over the edge of the stone wall that contained it. I could just hear its surprise at seeing its own reflection in the stone sidewalk. But what a meager image that shadow shows. Not nearly the beauty of the lovely lavender […]

Perfectly Proportioned

Why is it that 10 inches of new powder on the mountain delights and 10 inches piled high on my driveway derides? Same lovely white sparkle. Same fluffy consistency. Same complete coverage of everything in sight. The difference: perspective. One, I am meant to go out and play in. The other, I must plow through […]

Behold! The branch didn’t want me to miss this

The driveway is covered with ice as I skate along it to roll out the trash bin. I have my hood pulled up over my head against the cold rain that is falling. My rubber soled shoes have just enough traction. There is a fascinating compression of water under the surface layer of ice that […]

Breathtaking, briefly and beyond

People with a great mind are a dime a dozen. People with a great heart are few. People who use their strength in service to a great mind with great heart…priceless. I am grateful for these people. They are humble and unassuming. Like the tiny maple saplings we bought for a dollar two decades ago […]

Smell those petunias!

So, inspired by the beauty of Lake Junaluska, I determined to sample some beauty each day. To intentionally go out of my way to beautify a bit. But, creature of habit that I am, I didn’t dash off to the nearby nature trail, I ran the same route today that I have been running for […]

Run the lake but walk the bridges

I’ve just returned from time away at a place that is full of beauty. I’ve been there before, but it was not full of last year’s beauty. It was newly lovely. In fact, daily lovely. Each day, it was filled with a new beautiful. A new personality. It felt effortless to run around this lake. […]