I’ve long been a fan of making fun. I make fun of myself. I make fun of others…indiscriminately. I love having fun and making more fun.

Making money has also been something that just made sense to me. I always had a sense of how money worked and how to make it. So I like making fun and I like making money (in fact, my high school yearbook listed my likes as sex and money and my dislikes as promiscuity and materialism), but in recent years I’ve realized I like making beauty.

When I look at the photos below, I’m even further encouraged to make beauty.

An artist in British Columbia stacked his firewood a little differently. I imagine all the joy it gave him and all the joy the photos have given others.  The photo below shows more detail, and also shows it’s not a photoshop deal.

As you inventory your self and your year, as you look forward to how you want next year to go, consider the place of beauty in your world. I think you may find that joy often resides near beauty. You think about that.