Hi Pink Fiddle (who thinks up these names) ... this is a nice idea for a topic. I'll tell you what keeps me going, right now. I say "right now" as life is an everchanging process, with always changing stresses and joys, etc. Right now, for me, it's occasionally walking into my bedroom and seeing one of my two beautiful antique martin guitars hanging on the wall. One is a 1922 New Yorker, the other is a 1938 Classic. Sometimes they just cry out to me that they need to be held ... so I do. And I stroke them, and strum them, and hum a little, and soon we are carried away into music for a while. Would that we could do that more frequantly, but right now ... life is weird. Thanks for posing this thought. CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson