Jerry, After reading your latest comments, I'd like to add a little. I'm over at the nursing home where both my parents live several times every week. I also perform on a reguliar basis. Many many times I've not felt like 'getting myself up' for the singing date, but I always do. And I ALWAYS am very glad afterwards. Singing in front of those people, old, feeble, blind, in wheelchairs, walkers, or trapped in mental illness, lonely, afraid, is an experience every performer should have. To see the enjoyment, recognition, tears and laughs come to their eyes and faces in awesome. My style of performing is to walk around and try to approach closly with every audience memember. Yet sometimes, I find that I have to avoid and look away because my own emotions get in the way. It's funny, when I was 14 or 15 (and I was once) I used to perform at nursing homes all the time. Now that I'm 64, I'm still doing the same. CHEERS, Bob