Awesome. Great message indeed.

Leave it to Kermit to deliver that Rainbow Connection. lol

@Ravi Gregory Etherton We shall see what comes my way.

@Ravi Gregory Etherton Always. Just happened to have a moment. I finished up getting my weekly article up and saw the notification at the top of my pop on to Skool. Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to enjoy the last view of the sun in your day.

So wonderful. I so love music and while I did learn some keyboard, the musical instrument I was best able to play was my CD player. And for a while there I made a bunch of mix CDs where I took many of my favorite songs, blended them as a continuous mix DJ style. I got pretty good with the sequencing and trimming down parts of songs I didn't care for that it was a lot of fun, just time consuming to do. It mostly stemmed from having one of those magazine style disc changers and wanting to put together the remixes and b-sides from singles because loading a 6 disc magazine with all singles was often such a pain in the ass. If they were all on one disc, then it didn't need to be swapped out as often. So thank you @Rositsa Aleksandrova for blessing us with your talents.

@Ravi Gregory Etherton I don't feel particularly drawn to either diamonds or princesses. My experiences with the Diamond Princess, tie around having had great experiences on Princess ships. Some of it is a little bit of nostalgia for The Love Boat, but mostly feeling based on the experiences I've had so far Princess, as cruise line, is a good match for me. I got offered a free cruise on Carnival and was a bit nervous about trying Carnival since it has a Walmart of the seas reputation. But I gave it a shot, and I think the universe was keyed in to my energy because as soon as we left port, we were flanked by Princess ship that stayed with us all the way to our first port. So the entire way, it felt like Princess was sailing along beside us to make sure I was okay. We moved on to our next port on our own, and then for our 3rd port, as we arrive, there was a different Princess ship anchored outside the port. It was the Diamond Princess. She hadn't been brought back into service yet so she was hanging out off the coast of Mexico. As sunset approached while we were still in port, the Diamond Princess had swung around on it's anchor and now looked like it was sailing off into the sunset. I had a field day taking photos throughout the entire sunset since the Diamond Princess wasn't sailing away, it just happened to be aiming it's backside towards where I was on the Carnival ship. I thought it was quite amusing that on my first Carnival cruise and my best photo from the trip was a photo of a Princess ship. Princess eventually brought the Diamond Princess back into service. The ship normally is based out of Japan so it doesn't normally spend time in North America. To give it a few trial runs before sending it back to Japan, they decided to temporarily have it home port in San Diego. That felt like a sign from the universe that I needed to book a cruise on that ship. I took a print of my photo for the captain. I figured if anyone needed to see that photo, it was the captain of the ship in the photo. I did not expect anything more than a thank you for the print. But I got presented a crest of the ship (one of the little plaques they give to ports when the ship visits it for the first time), an invitation to dine at the Captain's Table, and tour of the bridge. I ended up having the most amazing time on this cruise all because a photo touched the captain so much.

@Ravi Gregory Etherton The funny thing with that castle shot is I took a bunch of photos and I mentally thought to myself I was going to have a hard time picking the one photo of the castle because that sunset was so gorgeous. Then the I spotted the birds coming over the castle and I knew that would be the shot so I shifted my focus to capture them and sure enough when I looked back at the photos, those birds really lock in the feeling that this was that special one time moment. The 60th anniversary decorations on the castle are only up for a 16 month window of time offering a different look than the standard view of the castle, cotton candy sunsets tend to be a little bit more rare golden ones, and birds being in the perfect spot is a 1-2 second window of time. It's like a special alignment of the universe and I was there both witness it and document it so that it could be shared and live on beyond that one moment in time. I can imagine the Antarctica trip will be glorious.