Hi Lovely Simplerista

I'm not sure how much you know about my story, but in 1999 I moved from my native Denmark to New York city with my then-girlfriend. We were supposed to stay for a year, but I immediately fell in love with the country and knew that this is where I want to live the rest of my life. In the 15 years since then, that hasn't changed one bit.

But making that a reality has been a long way coming. I moved to Denmark, temporarily, and that turned to 9 years living life almost like an ex-pat American in Denmark. Most of the period I had no Danish customers, no Danish employees, no Danish media consumption. I was always on my way. And yet, I just didn't make it happen.

Until today, when our E-2 visa was approved. This picture is me and my wife outside the US Embassy ... a bit away, because they wouldn't let us take a picture right in front.

So you can probably understand that with today's approval, a lot of pent-up energy over a many many many years have finally been released.

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It made me think about the process I've been through with regards to effort and manifestation, and that's what today's blog post is about.

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It's still mostly summer, so no new big feature deployments in the past couple of weeks. But we're stacking them up for when I return to New York in a week.

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I hope you had a great July 4th. I came across this incredible collection of awful/awesome fireworks packaging. You've got to see them. I love graphic design when it's taken to extremes like this.

Also, this guy is really good at flipping pancakes.

And speaking of summer - last week I was away on summer camp with my kids and 61 other kids, and I was the designated "camp chief". Since I live in New York and my kids live and go to school in Copenhagen, I don't know that many people from their school, and this was a fun way to get to know everybody, kids and grownups alike.

And since I was the camp chief, I figured it would be fun to grow a little mustache for the occasion, and so I did.

I ended up shaving it off in front of everybody around the camp fire on Thursday night :)

So I'll leave you with this little treat of me right before shaving :)

Have a wonderful week. I'll catch you next week, right before flying back to New York!

With love and gratitude and relief and lots of celebratory feelings,
-Calvin