Maybe a journal should be updated more than once a season but we will have to work on that. Spring has finally come to Kentucky. The flowers are blooming, trees budding, wind blowing shingles off the roof and squirrels trying to get in the house to nest...AGAIN.

I am finally out shooting again. It took longer than I thought to get my brain around being creative again after the somewhat less than fun fall/winter. I have several new projects on the front burners so the "keep looking busy" part of my life is doing well.

Now, about that "taking nine months off" to find the perfect FINAL job. We aren't there yet. I was hoping for inspiration but so far I am only truly inspired to do volunteer work to help folks get out of financial jams. While it certainly helps with deposits to the First International Bank of Karma, it does not provide the other element that is required as I head down the path for the next decade or so until I decide to stop working or it is decided for me. --- We are about halfway there. An inspiration will show itself.

On Photography. I am going to be building a little office that allows me to take my thousands of old 35, 6X6, 6X7 and 4X5 transparencies and negatives and make little 0s and 1s out of them. The most exciting part of that process will be watching to see how I have changed as a photographer over 35 or so years.

The second most exciting part will be revisiting old friends who are on some of the images. It will be good to see faces that I have not seen in decades. Most will be happy memories but some will be sad, but that is what adds the texture to life.

On Politics. I am reading John Adams, the book from which the HBO series is based, a history of our Second President and one of the Founding Fathers of our Country. I am left with the deepest sense of dismay that the politicians of the 21st Century would not even be allowed in the same room as these Founding Fathers. There would be someone at the door to send them to the children's table down the hall.

How have we let ourselves accept such mediocrity substitute as the best and brightest that our generation has to offer. We have so much better to offer, we have so much more to give but apparently the price is too high for the true leaders to subject themselves to the rigors of the political game. So all we get is American Idol 2.

Later kiddies. Spring has Sprung. Let's play!