Off the Cyber Shelf

Those who I've talked with the past week no just how good a year it has been. Finished one book, though I'm tweeking it a bit hear and there. Survived a whole year back in New York City. Reconnected with old friends, and made a few more. Been working on a few music projects on the side that are not too shabby. But, there's been one thing that out ways them all. And that's my thanks to the Grit Cook Book, from Athens, Georgia.

The Grit is a vegetarian joint on Prince Street, on a block surrounded more by old churches than hipster veggie eats. But it's power to comfort the soul transcends that small college town. And who would have thought that my stomach would have forced my brain to say, "Wow, she knows about the Grit? Maybe I should get to know this woman a little bit better. I mean, not everyone in Brooklyn knows about the Grit. Mmmmmm...Golden Bowl with tofu...Mmmmmmm."

That reason, with salivating comentary, stands clear in my mind from the first week of last year. It brought me out of 2005, which was halmarked by an aching loneliness. And 2006 ended with a feeling of joy, knowing that I have finally found true love. And we brought in this new year together with friends at a bar in SoHo. what a great year it was, and what a great way to ring in the New Year. And who knows, maybe, if I'm lucky, I can talk someone into having the Grit cater a very special feast in the coming year.

Happy New Year to all, that it holds the same excitement as it does for me, and that it brings you peace and joy.