Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. Saul Bellow Just when we think the ugly can't get any uglier beauty intrudes.  Sometimes in the most blunt of ways and other times in the most graceful of ways.  But beauty is the great intruder into our ugly.  Life includes both beauty and ugly and usually a perfect balance of the two.  Why?  Because without a balance of the two we would topple.   Without the ugly we would live in a utopia like state, forgetting the need of people, forgetting that we can extend beyond ourselves to walk alongside our fellow mankind.  Too much ugly, however, keeps us in a pit of despair.  So we need the beauty.  We need the beauty to balance out all the ugly.   The intruder beauty can manifest in a multitude of ways.  A bright smile in the middle of a trash heap in a third-world country.  A colorful flower popped up out of a famine parched land.  Handing a bag of food items and hy...