“"We need beauty....Our homes cannot contain the beauty of the starry sky, the Grand Canyon, the dome of St. Peter's....But it is in our thoughtful homes that we are given the change to pause and gaze and wonder, to slow down enough to recognize beauty in familiar, homely things....In them, we learn how to respond to the beauty we encounter elsewhere: to spend a few minutes watching a glorious sunset instead of hurrying back inside to get things done, to gaze at St. Peter's instead of turning our backs for a selfie, to smile back at the smiling face of our infant daughter instead of trying to capture her smile on our phone."
