General Eisenhower Warned Us...

General Eisenhower Warned Us:

It is a matter of history that when Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect:

'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'

This week, the UK removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offended' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. This is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the, 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beat, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way!

I Need Coffee!!!

I don't even try to be worth a damn before my morning coffee.  I know that I can't process or function or do just about anything, so I don't even bother.

Today I went to Cup A Joe for my morning fix.  I was groggy, disoriented.  There were too many people in the shop.  Everyone was moving and talking really fast.  I made hand gestures as to what I wanted.  I was confused.  I didn't bother to put my prescription sunglasses on for the drive because it's overcast today.  So when I got back to my apartment, I parked, shut the car off, put on my sunglasses and proceeded to get out of the car.  I was immediately confused.  It just got darker.  What happened?  Oh yeah.  I just did the exact opposite of what I should have done.  I went back to the car.  I took off the shades and put on the glasses (like I had it originally, because its overcast).  

I've now had half of my quad king.  My brain is starting to fire correctly now.  I'll go.............

Too Much Beer...

Yeah, so I drank way too much beer this past weekend.  Actually, I've consumed way too much beer for the past few weeks.  I feel like I'm malted.  I need to take a break.  I need to get some quality sleep again.  I want to wake up before 10AM again.  

The hangover is nothing new to me.  If you've worked in the restaurant industry as long as I have, you develop both a tendency towards alcoholism and a tolerance for hangovers.  In my Aspen days it was just assumed I'd have to work for the first half of my day with a screaming hangover.  That's probably one of the reasons I'd shoot tequila all day long.  If you stay drunk all the time, you postpone the hangover.

But with my 35 birthday right around the corner, I can say with all honesty that I'm a little tired of hangovers and that malty taste from a night of heavy drinking.  I think its safe to say that I'm going to be laying low this week...

Memorial Day 2008: Saving Private Ryan -

This scene speaks for itself...

Memorial Day 2008

I visited this memorial in Normandy when I was in France with my high school.  Many years later "Saving Private Ryan" came out and the movie started in this cemetery.  I wish I had seen the movie first because I would have appreciated my visit a lot more.

And the veterans of that war are now almost extinct, most of them dying of old age.  We will soon be without any living knowledge of that war.  And I hope without living knowledge we aren't dooming ourselves to repeat things.  I just don't see us as being smart enough to learn from our mistakes.  One quick look at the state of the world and I think anyone would agree with me.

So I am taking this brief time to remember and thank everyone who fought and died for our country.  And I hope that everyone will take politics out of their remembrance.  Those men and women did not fight for politics.  They did not fight for politicians.  They fought for this country.  They died for this country.  The ideas and love they fought for are much bigger than the politics of the land.  Its a shame we have politicians to ruin everything.

But, thank you soldiers for your sacrifice.  May we all honor your lives and your memories by not mucking things up here in the USA...

Sam Kinison @ The 9th Annual Young Comedians Special

OK, so I'm reading Peter Carey's "His Illegal Self" and its about 60's radicals, among other things, and Carey is throwing in real names with fictional names.  Well, when I read I like to google things in the book and find out if they're real, etc.  One name mentioned was Bill Hicks, so I googled it.  Turns out he's a famous (and dead) comic.  Should have none that.  And of course, it lead me to You Tube.  And then good ole Sam Kinison popped into my head.  For those of you that are still cutting your teeth, you probably won't remember this genius.  Of course, you've seen him in "Back To School."  But aside from that, this guy was the shit back in the 80's.  And then, completely out of nowhere, he dies in a car crash.  And we lost a great one.

Flight of the Conchords: "If You're Into It"

My boss showed me this video the other day.  I don't have a TV, so I'm pretty much out of the loop on just about everything.  I've never seen this show, but this video made me chuckle rather merrily...

Paul Simon - You can call me Al

OK... so how can anyone not love this video?  Great album.  Great video.  And Chevy Chase.

A lot of people don't remember a time when Chevy was really,  really funny.  Its true.  And it was happening around this time.  I was in late elementary school or middle school when this album came out.  And of course, they played the video all the time.  Because, back then MTV actually did play videos.  And they'd make this pitch and have this big build up waiting for the world premiere of a new video.  And by god, you watched.  It was like waiting for a new movie or, I don't know, video game (for you gaming idiots out there [go outside and play]).

Anywho...

Cat Conspiracy?

I'm beginning to think Dweezil and Moon are conspiring against me.  I don't want to think ill of the little buggers, but its starting to become rather obvious...

Here's the deal.  It seems that ever time I try to get some sleep, it is their play time.  And I'm not just talking night or morning.  Nap time, too.  And it doesn't matter if they're asleep too.  When they see ready to slumber, its all out play time.  And please keep in mind that we live in a very small apartment.  I hear every step they take.  I hear ever thing they get into.  Oh yes, I know what they're up to.

So I've been spending a lot of mornings lately yelling at them as I try to sleep.  They want to be fed as soon as there is light in the sky.  I myself prefer to sleep until 8:30 or 9AM.  And on the nights where I work at the Bistro and happen to catch a few beers after my shift, then I might try to push it to even 10AM.  But the furry little fuckers are having none of that! 

Daylight=food.

So, yeah, its my day off.  I'm up at 8AM.  The cats are fed.  And of course now they're down for their morning nap.  Little bastards!  And I'm up drinking coffee.  And when I go down for my late morning nap, guess what time it'll be?  That's right... indoor cat olympics.  So tired..........

Infinite Jest

I finished David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" this past Friday, the 16th of May.  I started it on March 31st, 2008.  If you do a little rough math, you'll discover that it took me 1.5 months to read it.  My copy of the book, which looks just like the one above, is 1079 pages.  And its a big book, probably a foot tall and the words are very, very small.  What I'm getting at is that it takes a least 3 times as long to read a page as your normal books.  In fact, I have already one and a half books since finishing "Infinite Jest" on Friday.  Long book!

I would say that "Infinite Jest" is one of the most incredible books I've ever read.  Easily top 5 on the incredible list.  Wallace is far and away one of the mostly insanely talented writers I've come across.  Comparisons to Pynchon are well merited.  It will take some distancing, some time, for other books I read to jump out at me again.  I feel things are just going to come across as flat after Wallace's style.  It's impossible to describe unless you read it yourself.  Suffice it to say, the man can right sentences that go on for pages (yes, pages) and somehow you are able to follow.

Its not a easy read.  If i wasn't in such good reading shape, I would probably not have gotten through the book.  It is very difficult.  Its not easy subject matter: drug addicts, alcoholics, tennis academies.  Very weird stuff.  And the writing style is so dense, so full, so rich.  Here's an analogy that just popped into my mind to describe it: Wallace's style is like an insanely complex, multi, multi ingredient, many-coursed meal prepared by a world-famous chef like, say, Thomas Keller.  And this meal is served to you constantly, over and over again.  And your brain gets stuffed to the point that its almost impossible to go on, fearing intense indigestion or puking.  And then your ordinary writing style, like, say, the guy I read right after "Infinite Jest," Christopher Moore, is like eating a box a Kraft Mac & Cheese, meaning its not very good, it tastes artificial and it leaves you hungry at the end.

So, it sounds like I loved the book, right.  Well, to be honest, I'm still in shock from the ending.  And anyone who read the book will definitely go, "Oh yes... the ending!  Ha, ha!"  Why you ask? Well, friends and neighbors, its because the book just stops.  It doesn't end.  It just stops!  Every plot: left hanging.  Characters: left in mid-whatever.  Everything: left hanging.  He just fucking stopped writing!  I have no idea what happened to any of the people I spent 1.5 months reading about.  I know nothing.  Its the exact same as if I had just stopped reading the book and put it back on the shelf.  He just stopped writing!  And he did it in mid-story of one of the main characters.  I'm reading along and then, BOOM, end of book.

Now that isn't in any way going to mess up the book for any of you people.  For one, no one reads this blog.  And for two, there was nothing to ruin.  No surprises, no cliff-hanger.  Nothing. So the shock of it is still blowing my mind.  But, it didn't piss me off and make me want to tell everyone I know to avoid the book like grim death.  The read was so good that I'm holding my critical tongue.  But, man, I didn't see that one coming.  Just stopped writing!

I think I'm going to incorporate that style and just

Edie Brickell - Good Times

OK, so I needed to catch up on some posts... and sticking in videos is a real easy way to churn out some numbers.

This song was my "first dance song" at my first wedding.  Luckily, the marriage was such a joke that the song has remained unblemished.  That's a good thing.  I'd have hated to lose this little gem.

Edie Brickell and New Bohemians - What I Am

So two years ago or so I happened to find out that Edie was playing at the Fox Theatre in Boulder during the 3 weeks that my restaurant in Aspen was going to be closed.  Boulder was about 3.5 hours from my home in Aspen, but it was a very mountainous 3.5 hours through Glenwood Canyon, over Veil Pass, etc. etc.  As luck would have it, a bad storm blew through that weekend and I was unable to make the show.  And I was bummed, to say the least.  As a friend put it, Edie Brickell is an old friend.

Edie Brickell is an old, dear friend.  A long time ago, friends and neighbors, a TV station called MTV used to plays these things called music videos.  The gist was that groups would make videos of the songs on their new albums.  It was all the rage.  And back then people would watch this station- MTV- for long periods of time.  I myself would watch only MTV, and maybe the occasional You Can't Do That On Television on Nickalodian.

Anywho, I would watch MTV all the time.  Back then, that was how people listened to music.  Yes, you had your albums and cassette tapes were at their peak.  CDs were just making their break, but the CD players were still wicked expensive and car CD players were unheard of.  So we watched MTV.  Pick your genre, they had you covered.  Yo MTV Raps, Head Bangers Ball, 120 Minutes (I think that's what the alternative show was called).  And we'd watch and groove and find new bands.  And sure enough, that's how I found Edie Brickell.  That's how we all found her back then.

I remember my mom and I were going on a trip to Virginia to visit and interview at 3 boarding schools: VES, Woodbury and Episcopal.  On the way up we stopped at my favorite record store: School Kids Records on Franklin Street (RIP).  I had just heard this amazing song a day or two before and I wanted to get the tape.  So there I was in Chapel Hill NC buying Edie Brickell and the New Bohemian's "Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars."  My mom and I listened to the tape as we drove through the beautiful rolling hills of western Virginia on our way to Lynchburg and then Orange, Virginia.

To this day, every time I hear the CD (and I still listen to it 20 years later), I think of that trip to visit boarding schools.  My mom has the same memories.  "Circle" also sticks out in my memory with my friends during our wild middle school days...

Edie Brickell, my dear, old friend..................

Getting Older

Just found out that the 3rd guy (out of 5) from my old college band is having a baby, his wife, that is.  The 3rd guy!  Ouch!  My buddy Rick (who's the only non-father now besides me) went to see our buddy playing at 42nd street last night and it was there that I heard the news.

And as I prepare for my 35 birthday in less than a month, I am beginning to realize that I might be getting older.  Not old, mind you.  But older.  And the tell-tale signs would definitely be the friends-having-babies thing.  Another one that I don't hear much about is the college dogs dying. Because we all know that one of the first things you do when you get your own place in college is get a dog.  Its also one of the stupidest things to do.  But hey, "got my own place, need my own dog."  So in 10-15 years these beloved animals start to die.  I've lost 2 of my 3 college-age dogs. Floyd, the single coolest fucking bassett hound that ever lived, die last spring after 14 years.  And then I just lost my golden Sammy.  My choco lab Barley is 11.5 years old and is hobbling along pretty nicely...

So yeah, getting older.  And I thought of another thing about the age thing which I'll mention now and will probably expand on in a later post.  Your 30's are when you really become an adult and are getting older and doing things that older people do.  Meaning... your 20's are still childhood years.  Proof:  count back 10 years- one decade- from your present age and realize what you were doing.  When your 21 and finally legal to drink beer, a decade earlier you were 11.  Yeah, enough said.  When your 25 and so in love and getting married... 10 years earlier you were 15 and still passing notes in home room.  You're 28 and rapidly approaching 30.  You're a real adult.  Yeah, bullshit.  10 years earlier you were 18 and getting rejection letters to colleges.

Now jump to your 30's and do the same thing.  I'm going to be 35 real damn soon.  10 years ago and had already weathered my first divorce.  I was bartending at the Angus Barn.  I was working real hard on my alcoholism and I loved to smoke pot.  I had a mortgage and bills out the ass....

I think you get the point.  I'm looking forward to my forties, so my 10 years back thing won't be quite as humbling.  Of course, in my early 40's I'll be doing the 10 years back thing and will be thinking about my cocaine daze known as my 4 years in Aspen.  Who knows, maybe one day soon I'll decide to grow up and be a man.  

And more good news... I think I've successfully weathered today's hang over.  So now I shall read my book....................

President Rush Limbaugh. Half Hour News Hour

Ah, to dream...

If only we were lucky enough to have leaders like this.  Instead, we get choices like Hillary...

Why Won't Hillary Just Go Away?

It becoming quite clear the kind of lady Hillary Clinton is.  And it doesn't take a political analyst to call her out.  She is a self-righteous b---h who will not give up what she feels she deserves.  The presidency belonged to her.  And by God, she will drag her entire party down until she gets what's hers.

That is despicable on so many levels, and so appropriate for her.  It is quite obvious that this woman only cares about herself and how much power she can amass.  Any of her followers who actually think she gives one single damn about them are complete idiots.  That's right, idiots.  And you should lose your vote for being so damn stupid!

The rest of the country and the world is amazed that this woman won't bow out gracefully.  How long does the obvious have to go on before she finally stops?  The party as a whole is a laughing stock because of crap like this.  My god democrats are dumb!

And I was reading Ann Coulter who made a good point of saying that it is all Bill Clinton's fault. If he endorses and campaigns for you, you're toast.  He couldn't get his VP elected.  Couldn't get the golden boy of tree-hugging, green-loving hippies elected... ouch!  And now he's run his used-to-be-in-front wife into the ground.  I think the country is saying pretty clearly that they are tired of the Clintons.

And I'm thinking that true Clinton fans are just rich, mean and aloof assholes who would do the same thing in her place.  They would feel entitled and would not give up.  The same way they all covet their money and their country clubs, they'd drag the whole operation down to get what was due to them.  The young liberals don't really count as fans because they're too naive and stupid to have a genuine voice.  They just gobble up what the media feeds them and run around their campuses hoping that everyone can just get along.  And then this middle class that loves Hillary (like those in Pennsylvania) must just be too damn stupid to even cast a worthy vote.  I mean, its Hillary, for christ's sake!  Just how uninformed are you to vote for this person?  Just how gullible are you to think that she cares?  Ouch!  Good thing PBR and bowling are pretty straight forward.

So I guess we all get to sit and watch the power b---h Hillary bulldoze the party for a little while longer.  And I've got good money says when she does finally go away, it won't be gracefully, but full of venom and anger and threats.  Man it'll be a happy day when we don't have to think about her anymore.....

Chatham County Line- Route 23

If'n for some reason ya'll don't know about Chatham County Line yet, you better just run right out and pick up one (or all) of their 4 albums.  This is bluegrass at it's finest.  They're the complete package.

And I just happened upon this little gem from Raleigh's own Lincoln Theatre.  This is the title track from their 2nd album, entitled, "Route 23"................

Just learned Something New...

So I just learned how to put videos on my blog.  And that can only mean one thing... tons of videos from here on out.  Now I can add more than just bootlegged photos and mindless ramblings. Now moving pictures can accompany my words.  I can make a point, share a story, do anything I feel like and follow it with video.  Oh, the possibilities!  Oh the abuse!  Oh the time I can waste......... 

Norah Jones - Nightingale

This has been my favorite song for several years now.  Its #1 on my iTunes play count.  And I never ever ever seem to get tired of hearing it.  When I finally got to see her live last year I was hoping and praying that she would play this song.  On that particular night it was not to be.  But I did hear a great "Long Way Home" for an encore.....

Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey

My first true, great love: The Grateful Dead.  No matter where I wander, no matter how far I stroll, I always come home to my Grateful Dead.  And they always sound as good as the first time I heard them.  Ask any Dead Head "why?"  Odds are they won't be able to put it into words.  But one look at their smile and you'll see why.

My reason... my favorite Grateful Dead song before I finally saw them live was "Jack Straw."  I absolutely adored that song, especially the version from Europe '72.  So its 1990, I think, and the Dead are playing at Carter Finley in Raleigh.  Jud's mom gets us 10th row for the show.  And finally, I'm getting in to see the Dead (I've tried a few times prior, but never with a ticket).  I'm on cloud nine and then it happens... I see the boys walk out on stage.  My knees are shaking watching Jerry walk out just 10 rows up.  They tune up and fiddle for a minute and then open the show with......... Jack Straw.  I had tears in my eyes.  And that friends and neighbors is why people followed those amazing guys around................

Emilie Autumn - Swallow

Here she is, friends and neighbors.  The goth girl I have a huge crush on.  I wish she had a real video or something, instead of this random collage thing.  But, oh well....

Democrats Are Idiots (Yes You Are)!!!!!

In Just One Year:
This email comes in three parts.
Part 1:
In just one year. Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following. A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummets;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
America voted for change in 2006? and we got it!
Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.
Quote of the Day........'My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.' -- Barack Obama

We're Going To Get Taxed......

Part 2:
Taxes... Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999
Single making 30K: tax $8,400
Single making 50K: tax $14,000
Single making 75K: tax $23,250
Married making 60K: tax $16,800
Married making 75K: tax $21,000
Married making 125K: tax $38,750
Taxes under Bush 2008

Single making 30K: tax $4,500

Single making 50K: tax $12,500

Single making 75K: $18,750

Married making 60K: tax $9,000

Married making 75K: $18,750

Married making 125K: $31,250

Both Democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates.

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of
some money and they don't even know what happened.

Close The Borders (Before It's Too Late)!

PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?
Read this:
Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS. I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts:
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal
aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the U.S .
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt...01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy
Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Are we THAT stupid?

Week in Review...

The "Week In Review" for April 28th through May 4th, 2008...

The big winner this week is Emilie Autumn.  It started out innocently enough.  I was trying to find the song "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" from Ferris Bueller.  Of course they didn't put out a soundtrack.  And Dream Academy didn't release the song.  So I spent some time digging and searching and trying my hardest to find the song.  It turns out the Emilie Autumn covered the song, at least according to Wikipedia, so I checked her out on iTunes.  And whatdaya know, she's fucking awesome.  So now I've added a gazillion photos of her, I've got all her CDs, etc, etc.  And I've got the iPod in the car so I can listen to her whilest I drive.  Guess you could say I've got a small crush on our poor Ms. Autumn.

Aside from that, it was a week to be forgotten, in that nothing happened.  I made some progress on the driving range.  I feel like I'm starting to get a grasp on my golf stroke in general.  Now I just have to hit 20,000 more golf balls so that I can get some repetition down.

On the political scene, NC's primary is this coming Tuesday.  After that, the god damn liberals will stop coming to the state and filling the mind's of our stupid, bleeding-heart college kids with their double-speak and rhetoric.  And it looks like ole bitch Hillary might make it a close call in the Old North State.  That would mean that the two stupidest people in politics- bitch Hillary and Obama- would continue this laugh-fest until the bitter end.  And I can't wait for ole Hillary to throw her fucking kitchen sink in and eventually lose.  That's the worst kind of loss- the one where you fought your ass off, made a remarkable comeback and then lose anyway.  That is exactly what the bitch deserves.

Making some progress on Infinite Jest.  Its only the longest, most intense book I've ever read. Man, I will be so glad to finally be done with this book.  It will have taken everything I've got as a reader to finish it in 2 months.  And it must be done by June.  

But, the big winner is Emilie Autumn.  What an amazing talent.................

The First Day of May...

Today is the first day of May, 2008. And what a magical month May is!  It has a definite feel, much like October and December.  Too many months simply occupy space, coming and going with little to say.  But May is special.

May feels like sunshine.  And vacation.  And preparing for school to be over.  And the first glimpses of the beach.  And sumer romance.  And music festivals outdoors.  And frisbee in the park.  And weddings.

May feels good.  Even in a place like Aspen, where May tends to be muddy, it is magical.  Everyone is in shorts.  People are tuning their bicycles and stowing their skis. The season is over and trips and vacation are around the corner.  I loved May in the mountains.  The sky was so blue and the weather was so welcome.  The cold is finally pushed away.  Highs in the 70's and low 80's.  Air so clean and pure it all but made you high.  What a glorious month.

Everything seems possible in May.  And everyone seems excited in May.  The last of the pollen has been washed away.  All the trees have bloomed.  Everywhere you look is green and lush.  All the bad things seemed to have gone the way of the cold.  To Australia!  Let them have our problems down under.  For we have May.  We have spring.  And we are going to love every blessed moment of it..........