Gratitude

There are many things to be grateful for.
We have a lush temperate rainforest in front of our backyard space. It obscures our view of the neighbor's homes from across the way and of course provides a substantial amount of oxygen and shade. We are 19 months away from a regime change. This is a good thing and a bad thing depending on what other nation is behind the scope of the Neo-Cons.
Paris Hilton will be incarcerated in a few days for her drunken driving road head incident. Maybe I'm mixing up her offenses.
Finally, the Rock The Bells festival kicks off next month in NYC with a line-up of hip-hop legends and greats no other hip-hop festival this year can produce. Headliners are the newly reformed Rage Against The Machine and Staten Island's first and finest crew, Wu-Tang Clan and a whole mess of others. Just watch this little promo video they made: