The folks who organized yesterday's service, and the folks who participated, truly gave Jonathon a royal send-off.

Andy and Mike, well done with the music!

For those who were too far away to be there but would like to share, I'll say a little more about this extraordinary celebration of Jonathon's life.

In addition to the glorious live music, we heard tapes that included the following: a blues version of Froggy Went A-Courtin' with JE playing harmonica on the breaks (at the start of the cut, you could hear Jonathon talking to the guitarists: "Dirtier, dirtier!"); the Boarding Party, hereinafter referred to as the BP, singing a version **in Japanese** of Keep on the Sunny Side, recorded in Japan with a Japanese DJ singing lead on the Japanese parts, while Jonathon led a couple of verses in English; three songs from the Clearwater voyage, with Lou Killen and Pete Seeger; oh dear can't remember any more but the effect was to give us just a little feel for the way that Jonathon lived much of his life surrounded by an incredible variety of fascinating music.

The live music included a subtle, elegant Koto solo -- quite devastating in the context. In front of the stage on a pedestal there was an ikebana arrangement, surrounded by assorted charming, grotesque, beautiful, but always interesting JE memorabilia. (What the hell were the fire-horn looking things?)

Then, forgive me for not knowing the names of the artists, the Indian gentleman who taught the BP the Bengali water song was there with his daughter, and they sang that very song. I about melted, it was so beautiful and so poignant.

There is just no way for me to describe the wonderful tributes to Jonathon, given in both words and music.

Thank you all for a trip through the years of our own lives as well as Jonathon's. Thank you for the hilarious stories, for sharing your memories, for the picture of Jonathon's big heart and gentle kindness, his restless and brilliant mind, his enthusiasms, his inventiveness, his free and idiosyncratic way of being in the world, even for the memories of his impatience, grumpiness, and general curmudgeonliness. It was all Jonathon.