There's beauty everywhere... just look closely

MY THOUGHTS this week have been blighted by the ugliness of imperialism, war mongering, genocide, and racism.

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This ugliness is etched indelibly in the souls and faces of those old men who have stoked the recent frenzy of bombs and machismo.

These old men who lay claim to authority from their gods and who send bombs to fall on innocent people have made the world an uglier place, less secure, less caring, more desperate.

I've been actively resisting the descent into hopelessness at the impunity with which they violate not just the law, but the very essence of human decency and co-existence.

This hasn’t been an easy task, and even the gentlest of people I know have struggled to resist the urge to retaliate and avenge.

Instead, I have found refuge in letting my thoughts search for the beauty in our world, and six buds to explode into the most beautiful orange spectacle.

There’s a cartoon I came across by an artist who signs off as Johnson. The woman gets out the shower and is changing, and the husband/ partner wolf-whistles in appreciation at what he sees.