One of the strategies I have used to try and clear my thoughts recently has been visiting desolate or unfrequented places. These places have their own healing effect and I find the solitude useful as it allows me to concentrate on what is happening within.

Some of the places I have visited have been stunningly beautiful, at least to my eyes. I have occasionally found myself depressed though that even amid beauty there is destruction of life; death.

Dogfish

This small shark (dogfish) was complete. Presumably caught by some unthinking fisherman, the animal had been tossed onto the pebbles at the top of a deserted beach where it had died and desiccated. How sad.