Today was a great day! Forget good. My brother-in-law who has been on life support, 75 miles away from home for the last five weeks is moving home... still on life support, but he'll at least be able to spend whatever time he has left at home with my sister andf their kids.   Meanwhile, my oldest son just took a job that will put him a two hour drive away from here for the next six months, which means we'll be able to see him a lot more often. My youngest son called tonight and he is getting increasingly involved in the Unitarian church and is feeling very good about it... finally feeling that he's a part of a community (which we all need.) And then today, I sang at the nursing home.. we got held up unavoidably and were 20 minutes late, and it was very moving to see a full room of people (mostli n wheel chairs) patiently waiting for my wife and I to get there. I sang a new song I've just written, The Carpenter's Son for the first time in front of a group of people and was moved by the response.

Life is good. Even when it doesn't appear to be.

Oh yeah, got a wonderful e-mail from an old acquaintance I'
ve just re-connected with after forty years... someone who is sturggling mightily these days and appreciates knowing that someone cares about him.

Jerry