Wednesday, April 15, 2009

baby birds on tax day


There is a baby bird in a nest outside our window!!! It's mamma has built it's home in the red Christmas wreath I refuse to take down on the other side of our front door. It has been so cool to watch this little blue egg turn into a bird, and my goodness birds grow FAST!!!! Although, there was a brother or a sister yesterday and I don't see him/her today... hmmm... I hope the big one is just sitting on the little one!

I adore spring. I love new beginnings and I love that without winter, spring really wouldn't mean the same thing. I certainly wouldn't appreciate it as much. I think people are kinda like the earth. We recreate ourselves and thank God, quite literally, we live in a world of second chances. Within reason I guess!!!! If you don't pay your taxes you may not get too many second chances. 

I like how an accountant I met recently put "tax time". It is our chance to be grateful for the right to free speech, nice highways, relatively good police protection and freedom to worship whomever or whatever we please. All made possible by our tax money & Uncle Sam.

As a self employed musician married to another self employed musician tax time is a ROYAL pain in the butt but today I am trying, to be thankful. And keep checking on the baby bird and hoping the big one did not sit on the little one for too long!!!!

Happy Tax Day.

Brandon