Well now folkvet.... I see it like this. Most threads at Mudcat start on a narrow topic and then.... evolve, progress, creep, whatever one might call it. I thin the orioginal question WAS addressed, pretty thoroughly. But like many good questions, it had a lot of other good questions tightly rolled up inside it.

And.... look, you could not find two people more diametrically opposed on matters of the spirit than I and Bill D (hi Bill), at least I think that's a fair characterization. We co-exist quite nicely because we keep thinking and we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I have no doubt we could enjoy sharing a song circle, tho my main music involvement is playing gospel music weekly in church and tho that's what I often play in a song circle. I think people are actually capable of quite a bit more tolerance than we often expect. Hoping for it seems to draw it out, because it changes the way we offer our own selves in the interaction.

~Susan