Sublime (noun): supreme or outstanding.
There is beauty all around us, and then there is the sublime, that touch more than beautiful that reaches deep inside you to a place even the appreciation of beauty can’t reach. It doesn’t have to be runway model beautiful, Barbie doll beauty is superficial at best.
No, sublime beauty touches you, brings a tear to your eyes or makes your heart soar. It becomes a touchstone of ‘goodness’ when you are feeling down or disconnected (or both), returning to it like a favourite fuzzy sweater or slippers.
I have friends like that, their beauty comes from deep within and shines out to create a sublime glow that warms everyone who comes near. They would be embarrassed to hear that, they are simply being themselves, even if their caring heart sublime nature is obvious to all.
Here is my list of the sublime, my touchstones that make me pause whatever I am doing just to watch, listen and feel the sublime peace inside.
M.
The Sublime List
- 1 George Winston playing ‘Walking In The Air’ on the ‘December’ album
- 2 Roberto Benigni in ‘Life is Beautiful’
- 3 Anton Yehorov’s reels with the grandmother and the reindeer.
- 4 The penultimate scene in ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ where Meg Ryan is on the observation deck at the top of the Empire State Building and thinks she has missed Tom Hanks.
- 5 Wuauquikuna’s rendition of ‘The Sound Of Silence’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUCNnhH03Q)
- 6 David Tennant and Billie Piper as #10 and Rose (if you know you know).
- 7 Snow Patrol ‘Chasing Cars’
- 8 The way Miss Frieda greets me, even if I have only popped out to take out the garbage.
- 9 Anna Lapwood’s smile.
- 10 James Taylor singing ‘Fire and Rain’
Honourable Mentions:
- Meg Ryan again, in ‘City of Angels’
- James Blunt ‘You’re Beautiful!’
- GooGoo Dolls ‘Iris’