The stars look down on us and laugh

Sometimes in life, I feel it’s important, as we are borne along by a constant tide of events; as we are bombarded with information and opinion on all sides, and try hopelessly to synthesise from it some sort of reasonably coherent personal philosophy; as we wrestle with our worries, our hopes and our fears for ourselves, our families, for mankind itself… that we find a moment to pause amidst the hurley-burley, and say, simply:

‘Wow. That’s a really big leaf.’