Beauty is in the Eye..

I found a cockroach, how beautiful was he and some suggested that’s loveliness we see.

The eye of the beholder! I know a beautiful girl who has tattoos all over her body, I see the tattoos and not her, but she sees the tattoos and loves them. Without the tattoos, she is beautiful in my eyes but the eye of the beholder does strange things to the mind and I must look past the tattoos and see the woman, beautiful and free.

My brother in Tanzania asked me who sang the song with the lyrics, I found a cockroach, and I have done some research but to no avail. If anyone knows or can find the original artist, please let me know.

I was chatting to Jenson after he stopped licking my knee and looking at him I realised how many dogs I have said goodbye to. This time, I told him he had to say goodbye to me. Yep, you guessed, it has been one of those days. Knees are troublesome joints.

Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? The landscape was here long before we would ever dream, it watched us arrive and the landscape will watch us leave.

This is a wake-up call on how temporary human life is, we need to stop making the wilderness a commodity, which is destroying it in the process. People who think they are taming the wilderness and nature are just ignorant. Think of darkness, we believe we have contained darkness, easy, just switch on a light, millions of lights. The darkness is still there and will always be there.

I have just read an article on Fukushima. Just over ten years ago the world saw its second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima in Japan. Ten years on and nature is claiming back all those areas that were evacuated, restoring the balance of the wild. Animal life is plentiful and the trees, bushes and grasses are flourishing. Wild pigs are becoming a menace and moving into areas where people are allowed to live. They do get shot but they cannot eat the meat, the radiation level is still too high. No one knows what long-term effect the radiation will have on them but for now, they seem to be thriving with many other animals and plants. Nature reclaims what we destroyed.