On Beauty and Being Just was a very interesting read, and has made me think a lot about what the author was trying to say through the essay. I particularly liked the section about Homer, Odysseus, and Nausicaa, and how the author makes the 3 features of beauty based off of Homer’s works. It made it much easier to understand what the author wanted to say by having these sections. Having the basis that beauty is, sacred, unprecedented, and lifesaving all make sense to me. IT blended the author’s arguments very well, and made so much sense to me. I was confused at first about the section with the palm tree paintings but once I got to pages 46-48 where the reasoning was explained, it helped so much. This was an interesting piece to read, the whole time I was trying to think of personal experiences and connect them to what was being said. A personal example of “beauty” to me that I had disregarded and first but then gained an appreciation of would have to be insects, like bees and spiders even. I have always not enjoyed the presence of these bugs because they are kinda gross, you know creepy crawlies, but after learning of their impotence and how much they affect our livelihoods and releasing my own stigma I had against the insects I garnered a much well deserved respect for them and found a new beauty that I hadn’t seen before. I am even thinking about taking an intro to beekeeping in the fall semester because of this, I want to learn more about bees and how to help save them. It’s very interesting that when we have an under-appreciation of things, how much more beauty we can see once we recognize what was there all along.