Hello DU [View all]

Some of you have noticed that I haven't been around here for awhile, I want to thank you for all of the PMs I have received that have expressed concern. I will try to answer them all when I am up to it, but I want you to know that I appreciate each and every message.

I have been ill and struggling badly, but I'm still here. I won't bore you with the details, but I have not been having a good time to say the least, and I'm not out of the woods.

I've recently found a piece of music that I will leave you with today that has been giving me strength. This is one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs, played live in Louisville Kentucky in 1974. Only a few here will feel this song, but it is powerful for me, and has given me hope. It is played in a "sotto voce" mode, meaning "under the voice", yet it is extremely powerful instrumentally...it gives me hope, and it gives me goosebumps...it helps me go on. To me, it is beauty personified. I hope you can put some headphones on and listen to it.

I'll check in occasionally...and as Jerry Garcia says at the end of this song "Thank you, we'll see you all later".

Keep the faith, be well, and Godspeed.