YOU know what I mean, Kendall. Your chivalrous ways and charming smile kept me on an even keel in your presence. I wouldn't actually do it in FRONT of you!!

And so, here's the question: What, exactly, are we afraid OF when that wonderful nervous energy manifests as fear? Don's got a good point. Everything SHOULD be OK when the focus is the music, but if that's all there is to it, then we'd all sound the same and do the same songs, right? The thing is that we are each interpreting music for the next person. I think that I sometimes get caught up in thinking (perversely) that this song (whatever it is)is so important to me that I learned it, I sing it, and I want to share it with you, and then, OH MY God, who am *I* to be singing this after all?! I feel unworthy, or something, and not quite capable of doing what seemed so EASY in the shower, or the car, or whatever. Now that actual PEOPLE are listening, how badly am I screwing up this thing?

Know what I mean?

I guess I think someone like Pete Seeger (just for example) just has incredible BALLS to get up on a stage and do what he does. And he does it! When he passes on a song or a story, it comes down to me just like he wants it to, or on the rare occasion when it doesn't, it's just so OK anyway.

Dani