Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder. What do you see as beauty?
Without a doubt, my children and grandchildren. But their beauty is not in my eyes only; I know that most other “beholders” also find them beautiful!
Avril Taylor, Dundas, Ontario, Canada
• Autumn leaves.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• My 18-year-old grandson did a job for me; when I paid him he said, “that’s unreasonable” and insisted I took $50 back.
Rhys Winterburn, Perth, Western Australia
• It’s taken me over 50 years to realise that beauty lies behind the eyes.
E Slack, L’Isle Jourdain, France
• Confucius said: “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”. I find the look in an old dog’s patient eyes beautiful, as well as frosted paddocks early in the morning when the sun shows up the delicacy of cobwebs hanging along the fences.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia
• There are so many kinds of beauty! In a face, when sincerity and kindness show through, there must be beauty.
John Geffroy, Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
• Anything that adds light or colour to life.
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
• The eye of the beheld.
RM Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US
• My mirror.
Pat Phillips, Adelaide, South Australia
• An elegant solution.
Lorna Kaino, Fremantle, Western Australia
They need a warning label
Why do lies have to come in a pack?
That was in the past. We are now told a pack of alternative facts.
David Isaacs, Sydney, Australia
• For the same reason as cigarettes: they’re bad for you.
Mike Mabbutt, Windsor, Queensland, Australia
• Because it takes a pack of them to write a fake news story, and to render gossip more scintillating.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
My cat changed the password
Why can’t we admit that animals are smarter than us?
Of my four terriers over the decades the current Lakeland is much smarter than me. She learned quickly how to only act dumb and she knows that each time I will fall for it.
Reiner Jaakson, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
• I’ve been trying but the danged cat has been at the computer and I can’t work out her new password.
Lawrence Murphy, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• We will – when pigs can fly.
Adam Lippiett, Munich, Germany
Try to look on the bright side
How many problems can you really have?
As many as it takes to appreciate the life you have been given.
Doreen Forney, Pownal, Vermont, US
• Just one – yourself! It really depends on how you view and respond to the things that go on around you.
Elaine James, Nairn, UK
• None. Only solutions.
David Ross, Thoiry, France
• Just one. Your attitude.
Malcolm Shuttleworth, Odenthal, Germany
Any answers?
Have smartphones found their way into your dreams?
John Geffroy, Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
When should being mad be a requirement?
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
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