Relief & Joy! Happy to hear Lindsay is okay now. It was wonderful chatting with everybody IRL (in real life) without the limitations of computers, and making music with everybody. I was trying to explain the mudcat gathering to others at the Old Song festival: a cybercommunity that's materialize in real life for the weekend. But Old Songs is a magical place. (I also hang out with the Old Songs Jewish Congregation, a community that emerges Brigadoon-like, for two religious events every year during the course of the weekend.) See you soon, I hope, in real life again, and, until then, on-line.

--Charlie Baum