1:45 AM and I’m just back from a great Dark Start Orchestra show at Higher Ground. DSO is a Grateful Dead cover band.. but so much more than that too. Honestly, I think they’re better than the Dead most times. I try to catch them every time they are here… and they usually come about now every year.

I remember seeing them shortly after Sam died. .. dancing and crying at the same time (Joni Mitchell says that laughing and crying are the same release)

as I sat there tonight I remmerb being there every year since.. it’s another good marker.. and reminds me of the healing power of good music

On the theme of ‘Long strange trips”, I opened a composition book today to begin writing soem notes and found soem cool artwork of Sam’s that I’d never seen

It really is a long strange trip.. no

nite all, nite sam

-me