Beauty

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

~ Bernard Baruch

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This place was abandoned. The wood was in rough shape, the stairs only sort of led somewhere, but not really. There was an old barrel and holes in the foundation and the side of the building where wood and brick had fallen away.

Even so, flowers grew by these steps. I thought that was beautiful. Sort of this message that beauty is everywhere - even in some of the most sad and neglected spaces. It reminded me that there is beauty also in even some of the most sad and neglected of people.

It wasn't nearly as poignantly beautiful when I picked the flowers to take home with me, though.