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You might be interested in this article by Wendell Kimbrough from the Trinity Forum Academy's online newsletter CONVERSATIONS. The opening text is below; see this link for the rest: http://www.ttf.org/index/conversations/detail/wary-of-beauty/ ---------- Wary of Beauty 2007 Academy Fellow Wendell Kimbrough reports on his changing attitude toward beauty in a fallen world. I have been thinking a lot lately about the concept of beauty. My mother is an artist, so over Christmas break I spent a lot of time at home gazing at her artwork. After three months at the Trinity Forum Academy, I found I had a new capacity to be enamored by her work. My mom is always creating new paintings and rearranging the house to reflect her art; my childhood unfolded within an evolving display of color and light. Naturally, this shaped me as a person. By the time I was 19 and leaving for college, I had a healthy, if sometimes naïve, appreciation for beauty and its effect on human beings. But over the last few years, despite my childhood, I unconsciously developed a deep skepticism toward beauty. Whether it was beautiful people or beautiful places, I discovered that beauty can often be used as a veneer to hide ugly things. ---------- The entry has 896 more words. http://www.ttf.org/index/conversations/detail/wary-of-beauty/