All I want in this thread is for the merry band of bickering buttholes here to list the things that actually inspire them in life....that is not too hard to ask, is it?

Nature and the love of nature still inspires me;

My children inspire me with their constant ability to surprise;

Picking up a good book where the words are so magical inspires me to keep searching for like books;

That song one just can't quit playing inspires me to find that next song;

When men of past great relationships reconcile inspires me when thinking of that it is possible for forgiveness;

Watching the relationship between my girls and their mother inspires the belief that all will be okay if I go out the door first;

Great programming that offers wonder and great surprise still after, what, over 100 years of visual entertainment and telling of stories;

The last one, with bit of just negativity in it - I inspire to live long enough past the rotten motherfucker that married my sister dies so I can go piss on the grave of someone I truly hate and can't leave this world too soon (the piece of shit with a history of vicious bullying and abuse of women has always landed on his feet while deserving not to be on this Earth with good people). 

Ps...one last wishful piece of inspiration - I wish this place could regain the magical spirit it once had and I fear that the only thing that is ever going to get that ball rolling is the one thing I don't think many of are expecting in the near future - but you know, that is okay because I think one of the worst things you can demand of an artist is new art.  So still, we at least have a large amount of "art" to already maintain us if we allow it).

So, as Jimmy Carter's one press secretary Hamilton Jordan, who eventually succumbed to cancer, would declare, any day above ground is a good day.

And as they say, that is that...........................