Beaumaris / Brexit

Last week I got to have a good look around Beaumaris castle, an excellent place for hide and seek with it's long corridors, myriad toilet cubby holes and symmetrical layout of towers and double walls. Ranked by UNESCO as a world heritage site, there was lots to enjoy, and my only regret (and I don't usually have regrets) is that I didn't video myself singing "swing low sweet chariot" in the chapel, as the acoustics were the best I've ever heard.

And yet it was never finished, this great example of a castle never got to be a castle, money ran out, and all those years of effort by so many labourers were wasted when the desires of the elite changed and finances were diverted to warring elsewhere.
Given that the news that day - as most days- was about Brexit, I couldn't help but draw similarities. I'm so cross that so much energy and money is going into what strikes me as a folly, when there is so much else we could be paying attention to, like addressing climate change, and tackling the growing use of food banks.
Despite never being completed, beaumaris still brings delight and learning today, so I guess wasn't totally in vain. I really hope that years down the line some good can come from this Brexit process, that it will have given a chance for people's voices and concerns over how we fit into Europe, to have been heard. The endless debating infuriates me and I suspect we will never really reach an end as whatever the outcome, people's perspectives on it will still need to be heard. As always, I want to stay focussed on where I can make a difference, and my own eternal question is more around "what matters?" Which for me is only how we keep on loving, whatever the situation...