what twenty three sounds like

my twenty third year began with sushi and wine in minneapolis and ends here in germany, with german food and wine? i don't know yet.

in between there was a suburb, an elementary school, a road bike, a beloved vegan restaurant, halloween dressed as germans, folk music at the 331 club, a thanksgiving 5K, a banjo class, a commute to work, a jugband competition, hundreds of netflix, an Amy Tan novel, a christmas at home, Kristin Lavransdatter, a luminary snowshoe race, mofongo in puerto rico, piña coladas on the ocean, an oldschool roller rink, perler beads, dodgeball, a job search, cuban breakfasts at Victor's, a brewery tour in wisconsin, a road trip west, a couch in missoula, a haunted hotel, a little cabin in montana, a mountain range, a powwow, some jim beam, some slovak lessons, a new SLR digital camera, a polebridge party, a dive bar, a rave in the forest, taiwanese hot pot, some new tattoos, lots of goodbyes, a plane ticket, two hours in iceland, four kids in germany...

twenty three was rocky, and then it was great, and then it was strange, and after today it's DONE.

here, i made y'all a mixtape: