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Beauty fades, or so they claim. It slowly melts away leaving nothing more than a bittersweet memory. While attitudes about what constitutes beauty change with the times, the belief its existence is always a temporary phenomenon remains prevalent. This mindset is fixated on the new, the young and, occasionally, the different. It often dismisses arbitrarily and remains harsh in its judgments. By refusing to break free from popular notions wonderful opportunities to see overwhelming elegance with every glance disappear. Instead, this mentality ensures whatever is of the moment becomes indexed and filed like a legal brief.

Fortunately, beauty doesn’t fade; it evolves. It regenerates from one perception to the next, continually transforming throughout the entire lifecycle. To spot it in the obvious is easy. To appreciate beauty in the faded or tarnished, in the ravished or abused, requires a different sensibility. And to embrace it requires an open heart. It’s through these unlikely manifestations that everything becomes fully illuminated.