I was thinking about life and all of the challenges we now face.  In particular, how do we stay positive when our aesthetic surroundings are ugly?  I usually derive happiness from a beautiful stream set in a lush pine forest, or when the sun is shining and I am standing at the ocean’s edge.  So, what am I or you to do, when we are faced with a gray day, no trees, and a cityscape with no redeeming qualities?  What do we do when we have to work in that type of environment every day?  As I search for an answer, I ask myself if I really just need to look inside and find beauty in my own heart.  Isn’t that what we are supposed to do?  Or maybe I must find the one or two things in that cityscape that are pretty or find beauty in a stranger’s smile.  Perhaps I must find beauty in the curve of a building’s architectural line or in the fact that I have family and loved ones who care for me.  Perhaps it is up to me to recall a stunning landscape that I once visited.  Let me know what you think and how you have found beauty, even in the ugliest of times.