Help me Zonda…

Vinci recently invited members of our game clan to post a link on the forum which best represents our vision of art or beauty. Being largely 20- & 30- something men in the clan, the first 2 posts were cars - a 1970 Dodge Charger and a 1960 Cadillac hearse, to be precise.

For me, however, beauty is in the wrinkles, in the eyes and smiles of all the generations already gone, and in the generations of our grandparents. The wisdom, the stories, the love and the anguish they have experienced and shared. Its in the dignity of those final moments of life, and in the privilege of being able to occasionally in share that moment.

Beauty is in the wrinkles and giggles of all those lives that are coming after us - our children’s generation and all those to come. Potential yet to be discovered, life stories to be worked out.

Beauty is in the aid worker offering hope, the peacemaker seeking resolution, a random act of kindness or love in an area or life damaged by ugliness and violence. Beauty in a kind word or a human touch during times of isolation or fear.

As for art - in the creativity of all those beautiful people (including the ones that have lived “ugly” lives…), in science, in building, design and engineering, sculpture, painting, the written word, music, even the games we play, creation and creativity have taken place. Not all of it beautiful, or adding to the beauty of the world, but none the less artistic.

but if we’re talking cars, forget those old classics and give me a Zonda.