‘Beauty will save the world.’ (Dostoyevsky) 

Why do we com­plain and moan so much? Why do we spend so much time tal­king nega­tively about things? Why do we lack cou­ra­ge and con­fi­dence, good­will and opti­mism? Not becau­se the times are so dark, but becau­se we have clo­sed our eyes to all the beau­ty and good­ness that is the­re any­way – but that we can­not see sin­ce we are con­stant­ly cir­cling around our­sel­ves and our own con­cerns. Antoine de Saint-Exupé­ry was right when say­ing: It is only with the heart that one can see well. Could it be that our hearts have gone blind from all the self-centredness? 

Our Christ­mas mes­sa­ge for 2024 is to embrace beau­ty once again – to open our hearts and see the world through eyes of love. Love reve­als beau­ty and beau­ty streng­thens love – and with it our hearts, our cou­ra­ge and our con­fi­dence. Sin­ce beau­ty empowers us, it has the power to save the world. 

That is why we wish you love and beau­ty. For, 

‘A thing of beau­ty is a joy fore­ver.’ (John Keats) 

With all our hearts 

Chris­toph and Christine