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Opinion Finding Beauty

By Megan Craig Visuals by Camillo Pasquarelli

This essay is part of Finding Beauty, a series
on discovering joy in the unexpected.

Ever since I was a child, I have
loved
things that hang in the
air: balloons,
mobiles, banners,
leaves, spider
webs, lanterns,
stars. Aerial acrobats
like Philippe
Petit or trapeze artists
in a
circus. Suspended things are by
nature ephemeral.

What goes up must come down.
Perhaps that’s part of what makes
them so beautiful — the transience
and reminder of vulnerability.

Several years, ago on a visit to
Italy,
I wandered the cobbled
streets of
the small town where
I was staying
to prepare for an
art performance. I
had a sty and
my eye was swollen.
The heat
was insufferable. I was in
search
of relief — a drugstore where
I
could find an eye........

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