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A Case of the Human Condition: Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder – But What If There’s No Beholder?

By Barbara Falconer Newhall | Published: February 27, 2010

A flowering tree grows hidden in the canyon below our house. If no one sees it bloom, is it beautiful? Without a beholder, can there be beauty?

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A Case of the Human Condition: Snow in California

By Barbara Falconer Newhall | Published: December 7, 2009

Apparently, it snowed last night on our little hill in Oakland. There was snow all over the place at 11 a.m. — on cars, on the lawn around a local hilltop swimming pool, on Mt. Diablo to the East, and dripping and plopping off the trees.

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