truth and beauty - (11/06/08)

truth and beauty. those two words go together. true people are beautiful. there's just something attractive about the,. something that draws you to them, like a magnet. you want to be with them and talk to them, because they're real and you want to be real. so you think that some of their realness will rub off on you or radiate onto you if you spend enough time with them. i think that's why nature is beautiful. it's reality. the bluebonnets along texas highways are beautiful because they are. they don't like to you or try to present you with something fake. they just are bluebonnets. and sicamore trees are beautiful when their bark's pealing and their leaves are turning. the only dash of leaf color in clear lake. they're real. even trees are beautiful in the dead of winter. they're beautiful because they're real. they don't fake life. tree's can't put on a smile and say everything's okay. there is no faking it. not like with people. some people seem like the greenest oak tree in spring on the outside but inside they're the dead of winter. no leaves, no fruit, just cold. tree's can't fake it. they are what they are. i don't understand fake plants. it's like people don't want to risk the sight of a dead tree. it's too real. they have to be alive and pretty all the time. fake plants. isn't that an oximoron? plants are real. they are life. if you fakeify them, they aren't plants. they're not even worthy of having the word plant in their name. that's not what they are. i think solomon had it right: there is a time to be born and a time to die.