To paraphrase M. Night Shyamalan's famous line from his film The Sixth Sense, "I see details." I am hyper vigilant when it comes to noticing the particulars of everyday life. I often have felt I'm different than the average person. This recent dialogue between Steve Portigal and Dan Soltzberg on noticing reminded me of this. This power has been both the bane of my existence and my salvation.

This sixth sense is often distracting, constantly poking me in the sides (every time I walk past this restaurant near work I cringe). Yet it's also helped me write and photograph about slices of life that on the surface might appear inconsequential but bring to mind to new insights in the world around me. Life Outtacontext is filled with these musings.

So when I received the latest issue of Newsweek with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson's portrait on the cover I was immediately mesmerized by it. My magazine subscriptions always make their way to my special bathroom library where I do a lot of my periodical reading. And each time I sat down