If you haven’t guessed, I love to travel. When I travel, my eyes are wide open. I look for the details. I see the minutia. I find the beauty. I open my eyes large like a child and fill with awe as I see the churches. the doorways. the buildings. the leaves on the trees. the people on the street.
The same is true when I run. I don’t figure out the world’s problems when I run. I don’t even figure out my own. But, I get lost in the scenery and the music. I hear the lyrics and I marvel at the beauty that surrounds me.
When I’m not traveling, sometimes I need to remind myself not to take the scenery for granted, but to look at my surroundings from the perspective of “fresh eyes.” As if I’m walking down a street for the first time. As if my home is part of my travels. And then, I notice the trees. the archways. the shutters.
I’d like to share a drop of beauty that I see almost daily. I work in a landmark building. A courthouse. The mural painted on the ceiling in the rotunda is exquisite and rivals any mural that I’ve ever seen – be it here or in a museum in a foreign country. And, all I have to do is remember to look up, and it is there.
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| Rotunda at New York Supreme Court (www.WillRunForMiles.com). |
Do you see beauty around you even when you are not traveling?
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A New York frequent flyer who elegantly combines her passions for worldwide travel, running a gazillion marathons all over the globe and staying fit ... without sacrificing her fancy for good wine and food.
Saw a heron standing silent and majestic on the creek in the backyard this morning on my way to work. Never gets old.
Gorgeous! Thanks for the reminder. Here in DC we have a lot of those Wow places too, but it is easy to forget! The Deal Kids and I stumbled upon one last weekend in Baltimore…they have a new holiday light show in the inner harbor including hourly fireworks, but it totally slipped under our radar. We just happened to be in the right place at the right time and BOOM!