Blencathra sunset

or, beauty belying reality.

After a morning spent catching up on some work and an afternoon overdoing it in the garden, I went into Penrith to see the film, Capernaum. I was completely undone. I didn’t quite know what to do with myself afterwards so just drove out of town, stopped for a while to take this and then, a little less bewildered, I headed home.

Seeing the film (the title means ‘chaos’) and feeling an overarching sense of chaos at every turn, I was reminded of both Philip Glass and ‘Koyaanisqatsi’, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OacVy8_nJi0&t=8s and W.B.Yeats’s, ‘Second Coming’, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming