I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” While this saying is true in many ways, I never really thought about it in reference to a city. After recently graduating from Morningside College and calling Sioux City home for the past two years, I decided to continue calling it […]
The idea of beauty is conceptual. Is it physical? Spiritual? Philosophical? To me, beauty is what we surround ourselves with. In Sioux City, there are so many opportunities to find beauty. We are lucky to have spaces in Siouxland where we can go and admire beauty, all while still maintaining social distancing. The location of
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“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” – Kahill Gibran We often think of beauty as purely a physical phenomenon; however, it is our mental and spiritual beauty that truly defines who we are. The desire to live a beautiful and healthy life is not only natural, it is
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The poet, Maya Angelou, says “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength,” and although I know this is true, if I’m being honest, it hasn’t always felt this way. It does not feel this way, I guess, because it is like
I typically respond to a reader’s question in this column. However, considering the current affairs in the world and in light of the recent (although certainly not new) experiences of violence and death towards Black people in our country, I felt I needed to use this platform to highlight the importance of anti-racist work and
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I don’t know about you, but with COVID and social distancing, I notice that I have been spending a lot more time outside in nature, and that is how I discovered forest bathing. The practice of forest bathing, also called forest therapy, involves no bathing and is not led by a therapist. It originated in
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