Alison,

In a month it won't be nothin' but a blip on your screen that might've been a UFO! I'll never forget takin' a gig in Stone City, Iowa and nobody came. (It was a percentage of the door gig too.) I was depressed and ready to quit musi---all the way to the next gig at the festival in Winfield, Kansas. In Winfield, doin' a show-workshop-songswap with Tom Chapin and John McCutcheon (with 5,000 people stretched before us on the ground) I forgot all about Stone City---until now. (Of course, it was John & Tom's draw that made it happen, but as Richard Nixon once said, "I'll take all of the responsibility, but none of the blame.") Live & learn & head to the next gig.

Here's the hug---with a little feel. ;-) ***BIG SMILE***

Art Thieme