At the Beginning

One has to start somewhere and in blogging it is here for me. I have, for some time, thought of expressing things this way, but only recently have found myself starting to utilize the new social media, such as Facebook, twitter or Linkedin. It is my hope to muse about music, aviation, politics and this lovely stretch of the river I see passing on it's way to the Mississippi. I love old sports cars, motorcycles, and airplanes and I suspect there will be times that they will be what I write of.
As I write this today, Chaffee County in Colorado is grappling with granting a permit to Nestle to truck water out of our drainage to Denver and put it in plastic bottles. As always with government, what might be the allowable reason to grant or not to grant has nothing to do with the enviromental insanity of my previous description of Nestle's intent. It seemed like there was so much incentive to be smarter about the use of our enviromental resources after the high fuel prices of the Bush administration, this seems like a step backwards. It is proposals like the Nestle proposal that shows the greed of capitalism at odds with the good of community. I hope they fail at there endeavor.
I also would like to make mention in this beginning of KHEN-LP radio in Salida Colorado. I find being a Jazz DJ on Wednesday afternoons to be a lot like this missive. You put music out there but don't get a lot of feedback on how it is recieved. It is, "listen to this" and you don't have to know if it is paid attention to or not. But these little lp fm license radio stations are a great place for community. Wonderful place for people to express what is important to them and in that regard a great resource for the community they broadcast to. If anyone should want to know more about KHEN they will find it on the web at www.khen.org. You can find a link there to stream our broadcast output.
This week in April it appears spring has come to the high country of Colorado, with temperatures in the 70's, but those of us who have been here a while, know this could be false hope as promised by a weather forcasst for rain or snow this weekend. I for one won't be setting out any garden plants this week.
The day beckons me out. Will by the River