It's a year's worth of work every year. We get it done, wrap it up and start all over.

I don't claim to be the best musician. If being the best means I earn the right to look down on people and critique their accomplishments in defense of my own, I don't ever want to be. People can say what they want about my music being 'banal' and my skill level 'competent,' and it will hurt my feelings (because despite what some believe, I do still have them), but I won't let it determine my self-worth.

All of the auction items are donated. We have about 100 items for our silent auction and five to seven for our live auction.

We're trying to raise $150,000 this year.

A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.