Day Sixteen: Beautiful Spaces

On Monday we move on to the Philippines for a few weeks so we've been spending this weekend doing a bit more exploring around town. For part of the day today we wandered around one of Bangkok's parks.

Natural beauty is, of course, breathtaking - but the beauty in man-made places is more than just a pale imitation of that. It is a unique experience to walk through a place and know that this is here because someone cared enough about this space to make it beautiful.

To quote G.K. Chesterton, "Modern things are ugly, because modern men are careless, not because they are careful."

So many of the places we visit are, at best, pragmatic. To create beauty in the midst of that takes a great deal more effort, and we are grateful for it.

Evan