Rick..I agree with you..The Mudcat has been my friend lately..I too have taken my guitar and squeeze box and gone to the hospitals and the like..I enjoy doing that I gives you a visual and reflection on many things we think going bad for us..then you look at other people in less better circumstances/ A week or so there was a threat on the sad songs. I neglected (perhaps on purpose) not to mention Stan Rodgers' "First Christmas" I was feeling up and doing ok Last Sunday..then came that song. I don't need to tell you how I felt. It is the exact scenario of my Dad (who passed away Christmas eve) Well, I fumbled around most of the day..then for the first time I turned on to an old Mudcat Radio..your show was so easy to listen to..I felt great...then came a message I saw was posted to me from Kat (as in laughing). It felt so great knowing that some people care and listen to one another. Well I felt a little better...I can say one thing..where I work..let me say I think we probably all have it pretty good. HAPPY HOLIDAYS ONE AND ALL ! Winters Wages