It's January. Approximately six months have passed since I returned from Brazil, got swallowed by the semester, and got spit out the other side of it in late-December. 2008 was finished of with a great week in D.C., culminating with this, now. The first week of the new year was tremendous, and the next fifty-one also promise to be equally so. Small sheets of pocket notebook paper full of New Year resolutions blow down the frozen St. Cloud streets like leaves, sending their incantations to the wind like Buddhist prayer flags.
On another note, here's a great excerpt from MPR news profiling the Twin Cities rock scene from the 60s to present. Worth a listen:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/12/24/midday2/
