I came to Mudcat in January 1997, and it has been an important part of my life since then. I have met so many wonderful people through Mudcat. Many of them I have also met in person, but some I never saw at all but still I came to love them. I saw a video of one of them just now, and I see he's in an electric wheelchair. I've known him for over thirty years, a little longer than I've been at Mudcat, and life has always been tough for him. But still he's here, and still he keeps keepin' on. And that makes me think about how many people I know here, and how important they have been to me, and how they keep on singing.

This world isn't going the way I would like it to go, but still we keep singing. I went to a singaround yesterday with people I have sung with monthly for years. And it was wonderful.

I hope we can all keep on keepin' on.

-Joe-