How will I cope if I can't sing or play anymore? Who knows? I'll deal with it. I've already had to cope with not doing a number of other things I used to take for granted and enjoy (like play basketball, for instance...). Eventually your time runs out, your possible activities dwindle, and finally you die. Fine. I don't expect to enjoy every bit of the dwindling process, but I'll deal with it when it comes, because that's life.

I find, by the way, that there are always some younger people coming along doing orginally written folky stuff of their own that's good. I encounter them mostly through the local folk music community around where I live. There's always good music out there to listen to, although it may not be much noticed in the commercial mainstream. I don't care, because I pay little or no attention to the commercial mainstream anyway.

And I will always hear the music I love in my head. No one can take that away.