In leaving Minneapolis, I look up to the Skyway, an amenable civic gesture in a downtown strip. like all other downtowns in the World , the centre can seem disorientating and without a sense of lived human connection. The skyway was designed so that in the harsh Minnesotan winters commuters of the city could walk warmly from street to street without ever having to touch the pavement. Paul Westerberg's song "Skyway" details that sense of wistfulness and hoping for connection amongst a sometimes overwhelming space. The city in summer provided me with a calmer thoroughfare, but looking up to the Skyway reminded me of those wistful, solitary bus trips I took to Dublin in the Irish winters of my Undergrad years, "in my stupid hat and gloves", so hungry for experience. My name sounding almost like an eye roll provoking pun on the song's author's, I might have shooed away any sense that I was, again with parody ,"like a Replacement" I'm glad I got to see the inspiration for that song, and that I was so wistfully obsessed with The Replacements at such an impressionable age. It made even the humdrum aspects of wonderful Minneapolis seemed bursting through with poetry. Song: The Replacements-Skyway Link in Bio #minneapolis #skyway #thereplacements #paulwesterberg #pilgramage #ofasort (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)