Honesty + Brilliance = Beauty

Last week's Thought-Spill quickly became one of the more popular rooms in this little internet home of mine. At first, I thought that was strange - after all, I usually spend a fair amount of time planning my blog posts to make sure they will help the people who come here; the Thought-Spill post, on the other hand, was nothing more than...well, was nothing more than a thought-spill.

But then, I realized: Its popularity wasn't really so strange at all.

Why?

Because people dig honesty - shameless, vulnerable, forthright honesty.

The best writers are the ones whose books are packed so full of honesty you think the pages might explode.

The best stories tell truths we all knew but never really realized we knew.

The best books shine a light on life.


Honesty + Brilliance = Beauty
(Actually, this is not a picture of Honesty + Brilliance; it's a picture of The Shutterbug, but since she is beautiful, it all sort of ties together)



Tell Truth.
Create something beautiful today.


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3 comments:

  1. This is one of my favorite quotes from C.S. Lewis:

    "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

    I sort of started juding my work by those words. How much truth is in what I've written?

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  2. Mark - That is a perfect quote for this! Ha, wish I'd seen that before I wrote the post; it could have taken the place of everything I wrote.

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  3. Your words were pretty righteous, Jordan. I was just adding some salt and pepper.

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