What A Great Day

Okay, I have a lot to say, but I'm tired, so most of it is going to have to wait. I will say this, though:

I think I had the best sushi of my life at lunch today.

I got the absolute best hair-in-the-wind pictures this afternoon, and the clouds over Stockholm were UNBELIEVABLE. It seems a little bit cruel to say this without being able to post the pictures yet, but wait till you see them - you're going to love them.

Also, I was thinking about the principle of compounding. It's one of the financial principles that was actually simple enough for me to catch on to in my finance classes, but that's not exactly how I was thinking about it today.

Imagine yourself enjoying any of these things:

1. Listening to a wonderful song
2. Being in a beautiful city
3. Sitting in the sunshine
4. Being surrounded by stunning women (or men, if that's your preference... go ahead, imagine)
5. Creating something wonderful
6. Seeing nature showing off

Any one of them is good. Two are great. But when you start to combine them, it's not like 1 + 1 = 2. It's 1 + 1 = 3. Add in just having had amazing sushi and a really, really good cigar, and this was the one of the best afternoons I've had for a long, long time.

I've thought about it a lot, and I don't know if I'm more sensitive to beauty or if I just tend to talk about it more than most people (having never been anyone else, I'm not really well equipped to make that judgment), but it really compels me. I feel driven to seek it out and celebrate it, which is the main reason that I love photography. And it makes me so thankful that I can know the creator who designed things to be like this... that what I see just keeps leading me back to who it was who made it and gave me eyes to recognize it.

And on that note, I'm going to bed. Until next time...