Pat wrote this in Sandy Paton's Obit thread:

I will never forget a line he wrote back in '99 when I was extremely ill. He, like so many others, rallied round and it surprised everyone I think at what a place Mudcat was becoming. He wrote, "My God, I've tears in my eyes for a man I've never met. This is what is meant by "community."

Indeed. And today my eyes are filled with tears as well.

I know that feeling. I miss that feeling of community, but whenever something happens to make us try to find it, it's still right here.

Because Spaw liked Pat Sky, and because the song is beautiful:

Of all these things, you can be sure,
Only love will endure