There are few questions I get asked as often as: why do I do it? Why is a guy who works in IT willing to pick up in the middle of a week and drive to North Carolina to help some Kossacks? Take off for Texas on a drive? Host an event in Kansas City? Travel throughout Kansas for four years now, trying to see what is possible?
I have had a few members of both parties who have wondered, openly and loudly, about my motives and means. Nothing has ever motivated me to do anything as much as my son, Augustus. I have written diaries about many subjects regarding the state of Kansas, some I have liked for their quality of writing, and some I have enjoyed, just to write my thoughts. None have summed this up as well as something I wrote years ago, about what motivates me, day after day.