http://www.northwestleader.com/2016/rethinking-beauty/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:33:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://www.northwestleader.com/2016/rethinking-beauty/#comment-163761 Cathy Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:23:29 +0000 http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5433#comment-163761 National Geographic had an article a few months ago about vultures, particularly the decline of populations in Africa and how devastating it would be environmentally if they declined further or disappeared all together: spreading disease, putrefying corpses with no ‘clean-up crew’ (the vultures) and the danger to other animal and human life. It seems God has given those things we call disgusting (in Western culture at least) a specialized beauty–the flight of the vultures, an amazing feather-coat to starlings, gross caterpillars to butterflies and moths. Slugs and mosquitoes though–not sure about those; they’re still disgusting to me. This sounds like a good photo-challenge, finding beauty where it’s not evident or obvious.

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