
We spent New Year's Eve at
St. Petersburg's First Night family celebration.
NinjaGirl and I danced by the DJ stage, DJRobMan kicked some kid's butt at the Guitar Hero tent (making friends in the process -- they went off to try the moon-bounce boxing ring). The kids took their grandparents through a labrynth marked by kid-decorated paper bag lanterns. It was great!

One of our favorite things was the heart-pumping Mt. Zion Progressive Drumline.
The drummers reminded me of Nikki Giovanni's metaphor poem, "The Drum":
The drum
daddy says the world is
a drum tight and hard
and i told him
Read what she told "daddy" (it's good starting the year right advice)
here.
Join in the first Poetry Friday of 2009 at
A Year of Reading.