A Year on the River

[mdlbear]

Today marks the anniversary of my first use of the River tag, riffing off the title of the song I'd written ten days before. My original conception of it was somewhat different from what it became, but that's appropriate for a journey along this particular river. I'm not complaining.

It's been a long, strange trip, hasn't it?

This was going to be a sort of wrap-up for the year. Fat chance. It's been too eventful: friendship, love, music... I have no idea how to summarize it. I've discovered things about myself: both weaknesses and abilities I never guessed I had. I've helped people. That may be the strangest thing of all.

Friends, it's been an unbelievable year. Let's keep going.