Thank you Seth for your wise council about moving on.. But I have to correct you about Jane Fonda. I had the opportunity to work with her when we both were deeply committed to the GI movement, in support of the active duty GIs resistance to the war. She is far from a "bimbo" actress, (has academy awards etc.) and, even with the celebrity thing to content with, she really dug her heels in and worked alongside everyone else on the nitty gritty, giving excellent speeches at the rallies and at the other extreme, making dinner for a few dozen volunteers after the marches. She was born into film royalty (Henry Fonda was her father) but she didn't let that stand in the way of following her antiwar and anti-imperialist heart and risking everything.

And you, mg… Thank you for outing the hypocrisy that is the curse of certain hand-on-heart liberal folkies. One particular guy I last saw in the 60s at meetings of the Sing Out! Board when we both were members, who was a "pacifist" of the coffeehouse variety, who complained that the magazine never should have printed the NLF anthem, especially with the English lyrics I had supplied which said "Arise, heroic southern land, arise, take rifle in your hand, etc." Oh no, we shouldn't be endorsing violence. That wouldn't do, for the little guy in rubber sandals to defend his family from the most powerful war machine in history!!

But before signing off, I would like to express my admiration and gratitude to all those genuine pacifist folksingers who have struggled, since singing began on the planet, to unite everyone behind the idea that "Love thy neighbor" is not just a slogan, that "We are all one" is not just a fantasy. Oh dear ones, keep on singing, forever and forever, even as the darkness falls, even as the drones and bots continue to crowd reality off the map and the social media drowns out the sound of heart-to-heart conversation, even when the goal seems ever further down the road, like the receding horizon, because singing is where the joy lives, that is where the love revives itself and grows, it is in the songs that we find ourselves and realize we are not so bad, possibly even worth saving. Goodnight.