2009. As my friend Ceee said his motto is, "Let it shine in 2009." We'll see what this year brings. I'm hoping for me, it brings graduation from school, continued teaching at the college, and a completion to my first book. The wishes I have for the world are too big to mention. I'm getting ready to teach this class on the history of prisons, and mostly what I hope, ridiculously I know, is that the prison doors are opened, and everyone I know and love behind the walls finally gets to walk through those gates for the last time. It's big, but as someone once said, I have the audacity to hope, and that's what keeps me going when it gets too big.

And as an opening to the new year, my boy DJ Ian Head has come out with a January mixed tape, that I did a fairly silly drop for. Ian does a project called the Dollabin, and this mixed tape stays true to the name: All the records he used to do it he got for a dollar or less. It's really beautiful though, I'm listening to it right now. You should be too:
http://everydaybeats.net/mixtapes/january_09_djianhead.mp3

Here's to making something outta nothing in 2009.