A Yellowhead Butterflyfish

Our calendar picture for March is of this Yellowhead Butterflyfish from the Indian Ocean, taken by Captain B on one of our many diving trips there.  Clearly - to those who know such things (e.g. the Captain) - it is a Butterflyfish, but had I been given the naming of it, I feel it could just as well have been called The Stripeybodied Butterflyfish.  Though, there again, maybe they all have stripey bodies.

So how about the ExquisitelyLovelySueKnight Butterflyfish - to choose a name completely at random?

I wonder how its life went - happily in the Indian Ocean or not?  I hope it wasn't fished up, damaged and discarded in the relentless search for Nemos after that Hollywood movie.   Surely the more we understand about the complex nature of our oceans, the more we can see that even the biggest and best of aquariums cannot begin to replicate the complex world that fish need.

But we, the fish  - all the earthly creation - are living in a tragedy, and will be until the loving and perfect Kingdom of God is ruling over us. And it is so close now, thank God.

I feel so sorry for both the Russian and the Ukrainian peoples.  And these sanctions are going to his the poorest in Russia the hardest.  I can't see they are going to incommode the Oligarchs much. if at all.  They probably have enough money to see them through a millennium's worth of sanctions.

Well, politics is a devious business, and best stayed out of.  Just think about the people on both sides who simply want to get on with their lives in peace, and how "the world" (the current system of things on the earth) will not let them.

I woke up on Wednesday morning - which is supermarket delivery morning - to a symphony of grey and green.  Perfect little raindrops covered the windows - the Channel was a slightly different shade of grey from the sky above it, and our lonesome pine was dancing with all its branches.  And Thursday morning, as I write this, is beautifully gloomy and moody - sea, sky and Green all a shade or two darker, and everything is very still. 

This is such a lovely planet, so beautiful in all its moods.  And it will not always be full of war, suffering and sadness.  Please do read this very short article:

https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/russia-invades-ukraine-bible-meaning-hope/