[Harp-L] Happy New Year 2007 to All Harp-L'ers...it's been an interesting 2006....

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Thanks to all Harp-L'ers, both contentious 
and verbose
from those who lurk behind the scenes
To the long-winded ones
who write the most
 
You've made this year quite a treat
helped me emerge from out my shell
Two of you even got me up onstage 
at SPAH
to play my chrom with you as well  :)
 
 
Thought I couldn't stand to play
anymore
when a friend proved unworthy after all
but now so many have filled that space
made it easy to scale
 that particular wall
 
2006 - a tough year in general,
 lost a few of my pets
 my grief was too great to bear
to play a harp...
then thought of losing a child to war
and how a heart would tear.....
 
 
I'm reasonably healthy and young (enough)
to still see music as my Muse
I've learned a lot from listening in
to the gearheads, blues guys and so on
and have such a wealth from which to choose.... 

 
So, I'm lucky to have you lot around
fractious and quarreling though 
you can be
I wouldn't trade you in at all...
you make playing harmonica good,
and me infinitely glad to be me
 
 
So happy New Year to all who make up this list
Fjm and Ben who do the real work, 
to those who simply post or read
You give me something to look forward to in 2007
may you long continue to succeed
 
Elizabeth