When my daughter was around 5 years old, I made up a game for us to play together. I called it “the beautiful game”. We would take turns picking out one thing we could see, smell, taste, touch, or hear, that we found beautiful. It had to be something that was before us. Those things could be conventionally beautiful, such as birdsong, but it was always better for the game if we chose other things. Mundane, even ugly things. And whatever we chose, we had to give one reason — a considered reason — why we found that thing beautiful.

I enjoyed this article. Enlightenment through changed perception.