The Getaway is always a special time for me; friends old and new, amazing music, laughter and tears. This year was......magical. After a hard summer all of you there gave me beauty and love and silliness, just what I needed. I would like to share one moment that will stay with me the rest of my days. I was walking to my cabin at some early hour before the dawn, when a voice from Peace cabin soared out into the night air and stopped me in my tracks. The beautiful clear voice of a young singer new to the Getaway, Sarah White, sang out the same version (and possibly in the same key!) of "Over The Water To Charlie" that Merle and I had sung at our first Getaway in ( good lord!) 1971. I felt such joy, and certainty that this music that we all cherish will go on long after I am gone, and wistfulness that Merle was six states away, and satisfaction in the knowledge that all the stuff that happens to make the Getaway happen is well worth it, and awe at all the wonderful people who have come into my life through this music (many of whom I met at a Getaway.) All this from one song! Magic, indeed!