Portrait of a Man,

the hardest working man on the field.

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

It has certainly not been a smooth ride.

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