If there were no Mudcat (and no FSGW Getaway) I would still be thinking secretly that I have a voice but would not have begun to find it. I would be on the computer a lot less. My life is certainly richer for hearing from so many people around the world about so many different things.

I joined a couple of gardening forums about the same time I joined up here, (some of you know that gardening is even more important to me than music) but I find I rarely visit them--I even prefer the gardening threads here more than on the gardening sites. That may be because I am drawn to gardening and music for the same reasons--art, creativity, food for the soul---and the garden discussions on Mudcat are more likely to focus on that instead of technical aspects or one-upsmanship on the size of one's tomatoes.

I like to think that if Mudcat never was, or if I had never discovered it, that something of equal value and pleasure would be in my life instead, but I am very happy to have this cyber-home and a big cyber-family.

Peace and joy,

Janie