Blog 647 – 05.29.2017

A Vision Of Loveliness

I am a professional watcher. I actually get paid to watch other people work. I am an inspector and it is a job that I was made for and quite a great gig if I may say so. I have been privileged just in this life time to have seen parts of all fifty U.S. States and eleven additional countries. And I hope to see yet more as this journey continues. I say without reserve that I have seen something lovely in all of those places and that I discovered along the way that all that loveliness is not just on the outside but a reflection of the loveliness in my own heart.

Why do we respond so well to beauty wherever we see it? I think because it is in us but ego too often blinds us to our own inner beauty and has us looking outward to find it and stirs in us jealousies and other unseemly things when we mistakenly think others have something that we have not. Ego is and we if we believe him are silly rabbits for indeed everything we see outside us is also inside us. But enough philosophysing. Let’s talk about loveliness.

As many men my head and heart have always been turned by lovely girls. And one of the all time loveliest to me since I was a boy in the nineteen fifties is Marilyn Monroe. The walls of my little resting place have three calendars and several framed pictures of her adorable and lovely image adorning the limited wall space.

Today is the anniversary of the birth of my first son, my step son, David Jerome Heyen. He passed a little over a year ago but today is the fiftieth anniversary of his birth. David like his step dad loved pretty girls marrying two. I have him beat twice over in that department having married four pretty girls. And no neither my son nor I are or were polygamous Mormons. We married our pretty girls one at a time, so modern, and so American.

I salute all the pretty girls today and ladies there is a vision of loveliness in everyone of you. Oh, if we all but exercised the eyes we have been given we could see the beauty in ourselves first and then be so much better prepared to see it in others. I am grateful to Marilyn for opening my eyes and heart to beauty but not so long ago I saw something in the mirror, a certain twinkle in the eye, a certain smile and it dawned on me, “Nice disguise but I know who you are and I love you best.” You may think that crazy but ole crazy Dave thinks that is one of the sanest remarks that I ever writ or uttered.

As I write this my You Can Do It calendar page for today reads, “I smile at my reflection in mirrors. I am comfortable looking at myself.” And why should we not be for we, not just me, not just she, are a vision of loveliness,

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White