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FEBRUARY IS not known as a month that brings natural beauty to Tennessee. Most of the green is gone, and the skies are often gray and overcast. The big holidays are over, and spring has not yet sprung. There is, however, still beauty if you look for it. One of my favorites is the creek that runs through Founder’s Park (the Library Park as we have always called it) with paths that go alongside and bridges that cross over. The calming waters flowing over the different sizes of rocks and stones definitely brings out the “good, deep, soul-sigh” as author John Eldredge calls it.

I have been giving a lot of thought to the old adage “Stop and smell the roses.” As it turns out, the smell of roses isn’t the most important part - it’s the stop. Stop, pause, unplug, notice. In our busy, distracted lives, these behaviors are becoming harder to come by without purposefully doing so - and we really need to for our own

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Everything Knoxville is distributed in Downtown Knoxville and select residential communities including Sequoyah Hills, Bearden, West Knoxville, Farragut, Concord and Hardin Valley health and well-being. Finding the beauty around us, drinking it in, is healing for our minds and souls. Eldredge explains in his book, Get Your Life Back, that “Beauty comforts. Beauty heals. Why else would we send flowers to a hospital room or funeral?…But, most of all, beauty reassures.” He goes on to explain that beauty gently reassures us that there is an abundance of goodness in the world, that there is plenty of life to be had. His suggestions for finding beauty include everything from stained glass cathedral windows, to wood grain, to songbirds, to the way the sunlight falls on your kitchen table. In other words, it is everywhere if we are paying attention and want to find it. Henry Matisse, the French impressionist painter, said repeatedly that he “wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one came upon them, suddenly all problems would subside.” So head to a gallery, or a park, or your own backyard to unplug and find your sigh.

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