I would say they are the heart of Mudcat.

And I would agree, and I would say that the treatment of these people (and the relationships that are woven among us) as mere text, as Tunesmith seems to me to do, is to miss the heart and to wrestle only with the surface.

It isn't the TEXT-- it's the PEOPLE (especially in their music) that one must engage if one wishes to engage what is real, what is valuable-- what is true-- about anything Mudcat.

~Susan