**This season, we focused in on our priority projects and took a few big steps.**
We all had a great time launching rockets to represent [The Destiny](/The_Destiny), as part of the Portland and [Ottawa](http://www.meetup.com/SolSeed-Ottawa/events/91063842/) Solstice celebrations on December 21st and 22nd. The map of the United States on the asphalt was a nice touch, allowing the Portland contingent to imagine the city as the site of a major spaceport. Each celebration also featured a potluck dinner with family and friends.
We moved toward publishing the big [SolSeed book](/SolSeed_book) (title under review) by translating the text into LaTeX format, which allows us to define margins, title pages, and so on. We even had a partial test copy printed to find out what it would look like.
The CD of songs about science that we helped to produce, [Terra Lumina](http://terralumina.bandcamp.com/album/terra-lumina), was released on December 18th! John and Will should now have some time to work on the SolSeed song, using [lyrics](/SolSeedSong) that I completed in November.
This winter, we will:
- continue work on the book
- have a retreat to revisit and refine our overall purpose
- go skating in February to celebrate Snowball Earth
- hopefully get the finished song from John and Will and start working on a new music video!
Thanks for reading!
Ben Sibelman