The article I chose is called “What is Beauty?” posted on Odyssey https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-can-say-beauty. The article first talks about physical beauty and art and how makeup can make a person beautiful and it can be argued that doing makeup well is a refined form of art. The article then turns to talk about how beauty is a choice. A choice that is made to accept yourself; and in that acceptance the world becomes a better place to be. The beauty of having comfort and being in control.
The two podcasts that jumped out to me are Terry and Alex’s with Will Johnson (https://tziccardi1.uneportfolio.org/beauty-interview/) and Taylor and James with Taylors little sister Riley (https://tmara1.uneportfolio.org/interview-about-beauty/). I particularly liked these because they both spoke about how beauty isn’t an object but a choice. It’s a choice to feel the way you want, and the realization that there is no more important thing than being your true self within your own skin. I can certainly relate to this and I love the idea of thinking of beauty as an outside entity that can be taken in by anyone who is willing to see it.
Although I’m still not sure what I want my prompt to be about, I also may go another way and talk about how discipline and hardship can help develop a new lens to see the world through, in turn, being able to appreciate beauty. If I go that route I’ll be using Elizabeth’s podcast with her sister (https://eknell.uneportfolio.org/an-interview-about-beauty/) and Nate and Kate’s podcast with their friend Leo.
