I'll repost this as my last post crossed threads. The blood drive is requesting donations TOMORROW as they are swamped everywhere today. In the Boston area (actually, probably Cambridge), I will be organizing a group of singers to go and donate blood together, and then sing--songs of peace, tolerance, and hope--for the other donors.I invite any local musicians to contact me at lynnoel@att.net, and hope others in other cities may like to organize something similar.

If you have ideas for songs for such an occasion, I hope we might suggest them to each other. I like the Hope/Encouragement thread at http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10616#74376

and invite any further suggestions there.

I recognize the anger and the fear as real, and we must address them as individuals and as a country. But I join the voices on this thread that entreat for tolerance and understanding.

When words fail me, and they do today--all I know how to do is sing.

"And if you have been worried that tomorrow wouldn't come Look to see the ones whose lives are following the sun And the hope that springs so clearly from the work they do Will spread a little further when it finds a place in you. We believe, we believe By our work it's so easy to see That the future is more than the following day It's fashioned securely in the clay."

thanks to Bok, Trickett, and Muir for these words of faith.