It's about the way the brewing cycle goes. So much is tied to the harvest.

This is a very important year for Democrats, nationally and locally. Many national issues ? like the war, like torture, like the response to Katrina, like Medicare Part D, like the incompetence of the Bush administration ? have a very real impact locally, in our quality of life and what we expect from our country.

It has certainly not been a smooth ride.

Portrait of a Man,

The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.