Springs arrived here in Nashville and it's just beautiful.

The dogwood is blooming in the backyard, the lilacs are just about to burst open,

and the Jedi Viburnum is blooming.

And if you've never smelled a Jedi Viburnum, you really need to find one and smell it.

It's an amazing smell.

I have one that I brought down from Indiana planted underneath the bedroom window.

I wake up in the morning, and you can smell that coming coming in and it just takes me right back to my

tree planting days in Indiana and the nursery where I worked when the Jedi varburnum were in bloom

I would go out and walk through the field where they were planted it's just about as good a feeling

as I can remember and you're standing out in this field and it'd be 730 in the morning

we hear the birds30 in the morning.

We hear the birds singing in the background,

smelling the Jedi viburnum.

You'll stand out there with my eyes closed, taking it in.

There wasn't a damn thing wrong with the world. Yeah. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

I'm sitting here in my living room in East Nashville on a beautiful spring day.

This is a personal journal.

This is a bit of an experiment.

I like to say right up front that I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing, but I decided

to do it anyway.

And this show was founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.

There's a creative individual and the person experiencing it.

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