This picture of barbed wire could be anywhere on our planet. It's starkness evokes many different responses in all of us-emotions like fear for those who have endured being imprisoned by it. Memories of prison camps both yesterday and today for some.Old soldiers will recall cursing whilst trying to negotiate their way through it on the battlefield.Others, however, may remember other things-sheeps wool threads quietly recalling a wee brush by as they wave gently in the wind on a crisp winter's evening. A single strand drawn tightly through a gap in a drystane dyke to keep the boisterous calves from straying. Actually, when observing anything, it an arbitrary decision we make about how we 'choose' to feel about it. William Shakespeare put it so well-"Nothing is evil lest our thinking make it so". I read somewhere the following:'Two men looked out through prison bars; One saw the mud whilst the other saw the stars"
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