I have a couple of cameras (well more than a couple.) I have a great bag full of lenses, this was taken with a 10.5mm Nikkor fisheye lens. An amazing wide view of the world.
Life is not always easy, or fun. I am fortunate to be able to choose how I respond to the trials of daily life. Usually with getting stressed, then realizing that it is all a part of the journey. It may not be the party I hoped for, but while we are here I might as well dance.
I grump about the weather, and the traffic, and the cost, but I am very fortunate to live in a wonderful area. As a major world capital, there is money, power, influence, and with that comes shopping, food and drink, museums, and arts. It isn't perfect, it can be cold in the winter, and steamy in the summer, there are times when you simply have to give up on traffic and go home. From the first time I visited here, I dreamed of living here. This is really the first place in my life that I have lived in because it was someplace I wanted to be. I am lucky, most people live where they live because of fate or chance or necessity. It is an interesting place to view the world stage from.
Politics are weird right now. Frightening at times. Politics have been like this before, and we have survived. The late 50's into the 60's was a very difficult time, and yet big things were done. There is still a lot of progress left to be made. But I can see it happening. In the long run. Brave people standing up for what is fair and equitable.
There are innovators in the private sphere working on amazing things. Access to space flight, higher speed mass transit, cleaner energy, more efficient food production, medicine. Government funding took us to the moon, but a bicycle shop demonstrated controlled flight. Electric lighting, and telecommunications came out of private workshops. In my view we are in a period of amazing innovation. 100 years ago only dreamers flew over oceans. What will our generations equivalent be to that? And there will be one.
So I have an optimistic view. If I take a pessimistic view, I am pretty certain that I will be dead before life or civilization as we know it end.
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