You're a perceptive man, Peter. Wherever this writing goes, I immediately saw it as an introduction to Handful of Songs... at least some parts of it. Two other thoughts that will be woven into this will be a conversation with a friend of mine whose father was long since dead. My friend and his father were at loggerheads most of their lives and had't made peace at the time the father died. My friend said he'd give a year of his life for just ten minutes to talk with his father and ask for forgiveness.

The other idea which seems particularly approriate for folkies is how wonderful our lives would be if we could be nostalgic for the present.

Jerry