Come On, Springtime!

February 25, 2010
Thursday, 5:45 P.M.
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More grey skies, more wet weather, why did God invent February? Why do the winters get longer and the summers get shorter as I get older? Please hurry up and get here Spring. I am so thirsty for warm, sunny, blue skied days filled with the scent of flowers and fresh cut grass, baseball games with the aroma of hotdogs and peanuts, leafy trees filled with trilling birds, long walks through my neighborhood listening to lawn mowers, smelling barbecues and seeing life renewing itself all around me. I just can't wait more than another five weeks.

Zeitgeist is calling my name tonight. Having watched half of it, I already have three pages, front and back, of notes to research, trying to prove (or disprove) what they are referring to as myth. I'm almost afraid to see the last half, their idea of the truth. Don't misunderstand me. My mind is not closed to what I am seeing in this film, but so far it is a difficult watch. It seems to be attempting to shatter illusions that I have carried around with me for as long as I can remember. As a lapsed Catholic, I have come to my own ideas about organized religion, but I have a strong faith in a greater being, who I choose to call God. I have always had questions surrounding Jesus, but I have believed that at the least, he was a good, kind, compassionate, special, spiritual man who actually existed 2000 years ago. It never occurred to me that he never existed at all! Wouldn't that be a kick in the head?

So I'm headed off now to explore new territory, but as Arnold said, "I'll be back".