I talked to Jonathan a while back. His situation is not at all pleasant but he sounded "up". For me, talking with him meant giving my sincere best wishes to a fine musician and singer and a staggering intellect who was, more often than not, far over my head. Talking to Mr. Eberhart also meant securing a few more bits of information about the malady that hits all of us with it in so damn many different ways that it boggles the mind. It leaves me wondering how the TV show, THE WEST WING, is going to treat it now that the president (in that program) has been diagnosed with the onsetting-remitting form of MS? How much info will the program actually dispense? Will that info help or hinder sufferers of the disease because it accurately depicts them and their problems --- or will it give false impressions of what it means to have the disease since everyone who has it experiences it and the MANY symptoms so individually ?

I do fear that more of me, personally, is in this post than I intended at first. Please pardon the liberties I've taken. I do doubt I'll delete it as I probably ought.
Get this CD by the Boarding Party, folks. It is a good one. And so is their second recording--probably available from Sandy as a custom cassette.

Art Thieme