If a butterfly flutters its wings....
Last weekend I saw my first butterfly of the year (A Cabbage White since you asked) and I reflected on how it was going to have to fit an entire lifetime into the next few hours. I guess all that's going on in Ukraine puts you into that kind of a mood. There are a lot of really sad stories coming out of Ukraine right now, many truly heartbreaking, like the interview with the camerawoman who saw the family of 4 blown apart in front of her. She'd been watching the soldiers realigning their weapon and then suddenly, too late, realised where they were aiming it. Her picture of the four bodies surrounded by the remains of their four suitcases containing all their belongings went right around the world in a fraction of a butterfly's life.
But the story that hit me right where I live was of a woman who hadn't eaten in two days when she gave birth. Without food she couldn't produce milk. The baby only lived just twice as long as the butterfly.