Good people,

I just got off the phone with Ralph Bronner and he sends you all his heartiest salutations and good wishes for your own personal peace as well as his ardent desire that we all find real and lasting peace for our blue and green sphere. I have received his instructions to be certain to send him a printout of this entire thread (he's not much into computers)---and you can be positive that, as soon as I post this message to the thread, I will most assuradly be doing just that.

Rick & Sandy & Caroline, Mr. Bronner has fond memories of hanging out with you two that day a few years ago at Folk Legacy. He would be much pleased if you both would get in touch with him at:

Ralph Bronner
W172 N9335 Shady Lane
Menominee Falls, Wisconsin 53201

And Ralph would really like to hear from all the Mudcatters who have spoken so highly of his products. He is a humanitarian, a philanthropist, a scholar and a gentleman who can even translate his father's label and strive to explain his dad's eccentricities. (Truly, that's no mean feat.) If you do contact Ralph, I can assure you that it'll most likely be the start of an adventure of friendship, mutual growth and possibly even sweet-smelling cleanliness. THIS IS NOT SPAM! I really wouldn't do that here--and I mean that. But Mr. Bronner, who is a folksinger too, was amazed when I told him about this discussion that is taking place around his soap---and he'd like to get to know the individuals that make up this cyberfolk community. So if you feel like it, drop him a line. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised what might come of that action. Ralph isn't a computer person much; that's why I'm printing up the thread and sending it to him.

Rick, he'll be in Toronto in September I think he said.

By the way, I don't dilute the soap and neither does Ralph. I do get wet under the shower first though. Ralph's dad, Dr. Bronner, did dilute it. But Dr. Bronner was a "a little different" in just about everything he did.

Aren't we all a bit "different"? Why else would we be folksingers? ;-) As Ken Kesey said, "When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro!!"

Art