Amos-- this was for you on meetings and S*it but my 'puter locked up and I had to fish it back out of my word processor to paste it here:

SHEEP SH*T Well, when I was a highly political member of the school superintendent's staff, I used to volunteer (an alternative life-balancing activity) at a demonstration farm/outdoor ed facility. I just had to shovel the real thing at least once a week to know the difference between sh*t and s*it, and to see how people and sheople aren't really the same even when they sound/act like.....

It's good to be able to shovel it when you are knee deep and to know also that when you're in your suit, you can't shovel so you instead try prevention!!!

Now this thread is not creeping it is crawling over to a pretty toy on the floor.

Over here...

This experience also taught me that a tough inner-city kid can get off the bus their first time even seeing the country, walk into the middle of a flock of skittish sheep without disturbing them at all, and discover forever that he is actually a farmer by nature. Then that helped me recognize how the non-musical frequently are actually musicians who have simply been "taught at" to think otherwise. And it has helped me remember many, many times that most of us musical people (and animal people) don't actually speak english or any other language as our first language. Some of us are completely non-verbal by nature and our language is music.

So when I meet a natural musician (especially a young sprout), who isn't expressing that gift yet, I avoid talking to them about music at all and instead try to put the music in their hands so they can "speak" with me.

It's no wonder, if so many 'Catters are not actually word people, that we tend to make word messes in our threads and piss each other off or get our feelings hurt!!!!! I bet most of us, jamming together, would get along much more easily.

Duh,,, trying to have harmony in a word world!!!