I apologize.

No. I take that back. I don’t apologize.

But I do realize that I’ve been pretty Debbie Downer on here lately, or Lame Ame, if you will. And that’s a part of the system of complaining that we have.

For example, I look at “How am I driving?” stickers on the backs of cars and think, “Pretty good, human. [slow clap, perhaps] Well done. I should tell you about it at the phone number listed below.” But I don’t. Life and time pass, and it slips my mind. (And of course there’s the ever encroaching fear that looms larger every day of using the telephone for its original use.) But of course if someone sideswiped me and then laughed about it and called me Stinky Arnold as they went by, then I would certainly call that number as fast as possible.

BUT THAT’S NOT THE POINT. That would be to put some positivity out there. So here are the most beautiful and amazing things that blow me away that humans made without making them for their beauty. I’m leaving out the ones that go without saying (i.e., the Taj Mahal, the art at street festivals, your mom, etc.)

-the grid of airplanes waiting for their descent into O’Hare (artists: air traffic control, pilots)

-lines of streetlights marching off into the distance between and around highways

-forgotten places made mainly of cement, but you can’t see the cement for all the graffiti.

-any human ever.