Music certainly hath charm to soothe the savage breast.

The other day, a good friend gave me a nice banjo, and, I havn't done much with it due to feeling really awful. Today, after 7 months of no voice, one solid month of ceaseless pain and feeling like death eating a cracker, I got news that a dear friend is terminal with Lou Geherigs disease. A finer human never walked this earth, and when that hit me, I sat down to have a good bawl. Lying on the floor by my easy chair was that banjo; I picked it up and coaxed a couple of tunes out of it. It was amazing how the happy notes from something that some people dont even recognize as a musical instrument was able to lift my spirits! VIVE LE BANJOS!!