"I have been having a super time for over a year now attending the monthly online Briarpatch meetings whenever I can make it. I am currently in transition from professor to 'starving artist' as a Briar much the same way as I was in transition in '76 when I called Andy Alpine on Lynne Gravestock's cue and became a Briar. I have had many transitions aided by people power in the interim, but this one feels really great.
"Today I was doing some cogitating on Briarpatch and I started to fill in some of the missing pieces. The bookkeeping business that Michael Phillips helped me set up is still thriving in an expanded iteration; I gave it over to Glen G. Bowden in the early 1980s and he's done really well with it. About five years ago I had the occasion to be at a lunch with him, hosted by a former client, in a fancy restaurant in Jack London Square, of all places.
"I would like to be able to offer support in some capacity or other as I feel supported. What that might look like, I have no idea."