October 15, 2015 | Inner Beauty

Love the ideas here. I was thinking about an English professor I had in college who we called “La Bruja,” (witch in Spanish). She had severe black hair parted down the center, wore only business suits and black pumps and even had a large nose and beady eyes. She was to say the least, intimidating! However, over the course of the semester, she became to me an enchantress of the highest order, my Galadriel! Her beautiful mind opened up for me the glories of the Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens. By the end of that class, not only did I find her one of the most fascinating, brilliant and poetic persons that I had ever met, but also one of the most beautiful! Her inner intellectual light and delight completely transformed her rather severe features into a medium of grace to me and to my classmates. We had all been afraid of our prof because of her stern appearance, but after being confronted by her greater mind and heart, we all thought her thoroughly lovely. This was the first time in my life that I understood true beauty’s source was the spirit.