My mood is beyond elation, but I can trace it back to the news today.

[slightlv]

2. After getting four projects laid out

to accomplish in the next few days, I've been on YouTube downloading and listening to my favorite John Hartford music. It's great bluegrass... and so many of the songs he played I grew up playing with my Mom/Dad/Brother in our "family band." Makes me lonesome for my Dad, but otherwise lots of good feelings from that time of being really young - like 10 yo. The worst was when I knew our senator was coming over to "make music" with us. He was a democrat... in KS, no less! Used to be a pretty darned good state... proud of it. But then we got that evil Brownback cabal, and they nearly ruined us. We're still picking up pieces everywhere they either dropped or tried to sell off.

THAT'S the kind of thing I want to see it behind us, the greed and avarice as rare as a single sunbeam in the sky!