remembering Peter, Paul and Mary

This evening I attended a concert/talk by Peter Yarrow, formerly of Peter, Paul and Mary.  It was the annual fund-raiser for the Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, and I found Mr. Yarrow's comments on bullying and protesting for good causes very interesting.  He is very involved with an organization called Operation Respect.  You can learn more about that at www.operationrespect.org. While I appreciated his wide ranging comments and his new song "Don't Laugh at Me" I must admit that the real pleasure of the evening for me was listening to the strumming of an acoustic guitar (no loud amps, thank you very much) and being encouraged to "sing along" to classics like "leaving on a jet plane", "Blowing in the Wind", and of course, "Puff, the Magic Dragon".  If you read these titles and instantly started humming the melodies you are of my generation.