I can't say I fully understand it, but I can recognize it when I see it. The cause of it though is the most confusing. Beauty appears to be the natural reaction to the terrible things in life. Maybe as Newton said, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, he was talking about more than physics. Whether he intended it to or not, I do defintely believe that Newton's laws apply to nearly every situation. In particular, I was able to witness the laws in action between forces of beauty and horror. This morning, before dawn, I was lucky enough to be walking out in the freezing cold. The previous day had been quite warm, and the snow was slowly melting, but overnight had frozen again. The result of the thawing and freezing were fresh ice crystals everywhere on top of the snow. This alone was not cause for jubilation, and in fact is quite horrible and destructive. Cold kills: food is scarce in winter, animals die, and frostbite is horrible. Man is afraid of the dark, is afraid of the unknown, and generally fear is an adaptive trait which indicates that you've learned that Bad Things happen in those conditions. In response to this, man has sought to fend off the darkness by adding lights around buildings. I don't really know if this makes life safer, but I know that people feel safer. Part of my walk today took me past a building which had just such lights on its exterior. The interaction between the snow and light, though, was beautiful. Every color was reflected from thousands of millions of points of light in the snow. Diamonds have nothing on this kind of beauty. I find it amazing, and ironic that such grand beauty arises out of the most horrible things in life. So, I leave you with this: What you think is horrible, what you think is terrible, and what you think is worthless will give rise to something beautiful.