Well, here we are 4 years later.

Yes...

Yes, I will be at "The Hill" in Central Park today.

Join me if you're in town. (If you're reading this in another part of the country or another part of the world, you can hit the "Contact" button and send me an email. Let me know how you're feelin' today.)

But, if you are in or around New York City today, why doncha head into Central Park and hang with me.

I was out there in the park 4 years ago, on September 16 2001... when I had no idea what else to do. It is a day I will remember for the rest of my life. It was a powerful, powerful time. If I ever play Carnegie Hall or Giants Stadium, I will never feel what I felt with all of you that day. And, when I sang "City Song", I knew it would have a different meaning for me forever.

Singing "City Song" - September 16, 2001

(Maybe I'll bring along a little surprise today to help some people smile a little.)

Yesterday... whoa! Yesterday, I was sharing my music in the park, and it turned into one of those golden days, again. The Good feeling was palpable all day... a special kind of energy. We laughed, sang... just hung together.

Later on, I was playing a song that is kinda special to me, and some couples got up and started dancing in the park. (Here's a photo, sent in to the website by a woman named Dorothy, of some of the cool couples.)

Dancing in the Park

So, anyway... maybe I'll see you in Central Park. If you don't live in this part of the world, and you feel like it you can jump into the "Forum" and let us know how you're feeling today... your thoughts.

I also wanna talk to you this weekend about an extraordinary chance for you to do some real Good in this world.

I'm talking about the VOICES TOGETHER CONCERT

Click on this logo and visit the new website...

...and, find out how you can be a real part of the VOICES TOGETHER concert. Really make a difference for the better in this world, when ordinary people here reach out to help the ordinary people of Iraq. Please help make a very real and direct difference. Don't you think it would be so much harder to hate someone if they were bandaging your child's head? Don't you think we'd create one less enemy if we flew somone's wife or brother to the United States to get medical treatment for that leg that was blown off, or those eyes that were so badly burned? It is just the right thing... no... the Good thing to do. There are children being hurt and horribly injured every day in Iraq with nearly no one to help them. Ordinary people... civilians, every day, whose lives are being torn apart by this war.

They need help... period.

We need to raise $50,000 in the next week or so.

Can you help?

(Actually, one person with the whole 50 grand would do it! Or, 10 of you donating 5,000 each!!!)

Seriously.... we need you.

And, every dollar of your donation is tax-deductible.

I know. I know. Hurricane Katrina victims need you, too. It's a very difficult time all over the world. I will be doing a benefit concert this coming Tuesday at Chelsea Pier. (See the thread in the "Forum" over there.) But, my good friends abnd I started this effort to help the children in Iraq a couple of months ago, and we're committed to seeing it through.

If you don't know what I'm talking about... this concert is part of a sincere effort to get as much help as we possibly can directly to the innocent civilian families, especially the children, who are living through the war in Iraq.Voices Together website as a concert "producer". Because that's exactly what you are!

This is gonna be a very special night, sometime in January here in New York City. And, like I said, you are welcome to be a real part of it. Help us produce this concert so that we can help some very special people who are doing some very remarkable work in that part of the world, okay?

And, it'll feel good to help. And... it'll actually be fun.

OKAY!

Couple of other things... until further notice, every time you buy a copy of "Common Ground" or "Crazy on the Same Day" or the single "JesusLand"... from this company, CD BABY... EVERY NICKEL of my profits goes to the relief effort on the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans.

What else?

Oh yeah. If you're new here, or reading this in another part of the country or another part of the world, you can take a minute or two to browse through the "Archives" over there today. Even stop in the "Forum" (message board) if you feel like it and say "Hi". You can also email me personally through the "Contact" button.

Cool?