!42! Topic #10: Hidden Beauty

In Chapter 3, Lily says, "I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it."

In Chapter 8, August tells Lily, "Some things happen in a literal way, Lily.  And then other things, like this one, happen in a not-literal way, but they still happen . . . What I mean is that the bees weren't really singing the words from Luke, but still, if you have the right kind of ears, you can listen to a hive and hear the Christmas story somewhere inside yourself.  You can hear silent things on the other side of the everyday world that nobody else can."

Do you see the mystery hiding in the world?  If not, do you believe it isn't there?  Can you hear the silent things on the other side of the everyday world?  Are these things really hidden from us, or are they in plain sight and we just never notice?

Try this one.  What about this video is interesting?



Here's the actual story.

So the question remains: do we see mystery and wonder, and just walk on by?  Or is it hard for us to see?  If it is hard for us to see, if it really is hidden -- why?  Or, of course: is it just not there?


Please answer these questions as well as you can, by next Monday.