Gosh....I was mulling all this over while taking my daughter to school a few minutes ago. No matter what the outcome of the concert itself, the effort and input of all these people is the real honor. I think I'll borrow a commercial image that some credit card company uses...

* Winning Carnegie Hall bid: $1800.00 * Plane tickets to New York: $ 350.00 * Van fixed in order to go to airport $ 75.00 * Phone bills aquired because of this: $ 100.00 * Bounced check fees (oops) $ 50.00 * Large Group of caring, enthusiastic, positive people gathered together to help manifest a dream for someone they've never met.......................PRICELESS!!!!

There's something extremely wonderful happining here.