I wish it were true Morticia, but I know for a fact that some of that majority have become pretty weary around here recently, not because of the old nonsense about music vs. non-music, but just because they thought this was going to be a community without the crap that made them suspicious of other communities. They get tired of having to fight the kind of patient battle that an open space like this has to go on doing all the time (summer brush fires, I like to call it) to keep its tone. And whatever it is that life brings along. I personally think that it is an odd sort of space, and creates its own strange rhythm, but I know that some people have plunged into it as if it were familiar ( perhaps always hoped for) ground. But it is not ordinary: it is something new in the world, confusing because it is interlaced with old, familiar things. But we underestimate its strangeness, and the need to keep it tended. And to go out and play somewhere else from time to time: it is, after all, summer. To give it a rest.

yours, Peter T.