eauty is the flower be-speckled with dew in the thin light of dawn, it is the volunteer at the soup kitchen who missed their own Christmas meal, it is a lioness hunting on the plains. It is majesty and self-sacrifice, it is the wonders of the natural world and our spiritual wholeness. I can never see beauty as something bought in a store, coiffured hair, pouting lips and come-get-me eyes. It can't be had by starving yourself or working extra shifts to purchase designer goods. Beauty is free, we just have to embrace it, protect it and value it. But first we have to know what it is.