We're Noticing Beauty & Celebrating a Birthday!
October 1, 2009 by Káren Wallace
Filed under The Space
To say I am excited is an understatement. So much happening here, and all at once, it seems…
It’s Our Birthday! The Calm Space is 2!
We’ve got our party hats on and noise makers at the ready, the streamers are flying and we’re planning to celebrate with lots of virtual cake (the non-fattening kind:), bubbles and good times! Will you join us?
Ok, I’ll pop my cake and bubbles aside for a minute and fill you in on the rest.
Firstly, you’ll notice that we’ve welcomed back our guest contributors Janice Hunter (Kitchen Table Space), Vitania M Liscio (Design Space), Dee Le Blang (Sound Space) and Anne Maybus (Living Space)! Please support these wonderful writers as well as our ‘regulars’ – Chris Owen (Relationship Space), Angela Esnouf (Organising Space), Annie Hutton (Spiritual Space) and Amy Palko (Nature Space & her photography at Breathing Space).
These are truly beautiful women, one and all! They have huge hearts, they are so very generous and offer their wisdom to you with no thoughts of return, their beauty really shines through their words and their pictures. So this month, if you hadn’t already guessed, our theme is Beauty.
And we’re so not talking about anti-ageing or how to look good at (name your age)… that’s just NOT us! We’re not into extreme makeovers, or trotting out the tripe about beauty. I found this quote by Jean Kerr from The Snake Has All The Lines: “I‘m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?“
No. What we’re talking about is that deep sense of confidence and poise that makes us feel beautiful. That warm glow that we get when we know we’re loved for who we are – warts and all, no matter our weight, despite bad hair days and complexion woes. We’re talking about noticing beauty and letting it infuse our life with wonder and joy.
In honour of our own unique version of Beauty, and our birthday, and simply because We Can… we’re throwing a big come-one-come-all party! You’re invited!
As I talk about in Serenity Space this month, and as Amy also shares in Nature Space, noticing the beauty that surrounds us can change our outlook and even change our life.
Party Invitation
Put on your special beauty-seeking glasses, grab your camera (or your phone) and start noticing! You’re surrounded by beauty – little and big, incredible and heart-warming. Start noticing and start clicking!
Then, to get into the celebration of beauty in a big way, post a photo or four on your blog or Flickr. And write, in just 150 words or less, what Noticing Beauty means to you.
Send us a trackback, and email the link to your post/photo to thecalmspace@gmail.com. If you don’t have a blog or Flickr account, don’t think you’re missing out – email your entry directly to me.
We’ll publish or link to as many of the posts/photos as possible during our month-long celebrations (just be sure to send us your link before 26th October)! Are you in?
Enjoy our Beauty issue, and I hope you find our virtual cake scrumdidlyumptious!
I see the beauty in you…
Káren xx
Happy Birthday to The Calm Space
This is such a special magazine which never fails to bring me a sense of peace as I read it. Inspirational, heart-warming, breath-taking…. simply glorious.
Congratulations on the last two years and may there be many more!
Amy
xx
Happy birthday, Calm Space, and thank you, Karen, for being a beautiful soul and bringing together such a treasure trove of inspiration!
Thank you, too, Amy; it was your beautiful photos, words and blog that inspired me to be brave enough and reach out to Karen.
Amy, thank you for your wonderful wishes. Your words, like your contributions here, mean the world to me.
Janice, I am so thankful to Amy for attracting you here to The Calm Space – you’ve come to mean so much to us all here in such a short space of time.