Inspiration comes from many places. A smile in the street, a car with an extra wheel hanger, an old gnarled man who looks at you with hazy eyes, but more than anywhere else, it comes from the loneliness inside of each of us. The natural world then becomes its mirror and we reflect ourselves in it, and see it reflected inside of us. As unique and as individual as we are, so too the world around us. An artist reminded me of that.
The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?
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