Appreciate the beauty

Maria Montessori held the belief that children and I guess adults too, should be surrounded by beautiful things in order to develop an appreciation for the world around them. Unfortunately many of us, parents, take away the beautiful things we surround ourselves with before we have children in an attempt to BABY PROOF the house. We do this because we are, as society, attached to our possessions.

I am guilty of this. When Genevieve began to be on the move, everything that was of value to me, mainly all the glass trinkets were packed in boxes to be brought out at a later stage in her life, when she could understand the delicacy of such objects. While I was waiting for her to learn this delicacy, her brother was born and we moved house. The delicate objects remained in storage. Again we wait,now for King Arthur to understand the delicacies of my trickets.( Can you see I'm still attached to them at this point in time) Again we moved house, the trinkets remained in the box. By this time we have moved several times and Sir Lucan is born. The trinkets remain in the box.

We have finally settled in our new home and began unpacking boxes. We decided every box was to be unpacked to see what was in storage. After so many years, we are talking about six, we came upon the trinkets box. Those beautiful, delicate things I held so dear. You the box marked FRAGILE, its precious, please be gentle. I open the box to behold the beauty within, the beauty I have denied myself since having a child, only to discover that my beautiful, delicate, precious trinkets are broken. Shattered beyond repair. For six years I kept those trinkets from myself and my children because they would be broken by little hands, only to in the end suffer just that fate.

Would it not been better to behold the beauty, touch it, explore it, appreciate it and then it be be broken than hidden away in the dark for no one to see?

Maybe Maria had it right. We need to feel, touch, smell, hear and taste the beauty that is around us to appreciate because I certainly didn't appreciate my trinkets while they were in their box.