Five months have passed since my last missive, and I apologize for that. I thought it would be appropriate to wait until the perfect night (Christmas Eve) to share some good news. And Lordy, with the year we’ve been through, we could stand to hear some good news.

Here’s the background. While recording my error-free memoir onto Audible and preparing to make it available to consumers nationwide, I touched toes with the long-time operators of KAFM 89.1, Grand Junction, a community radio station entertaining pioneers, Natives and their descendants on the western slope of Colorado.

Its 24/7 programming consists of approximately three-hour blocks awarded to volunteer deejays who help the station recover from #47’s attempts to financially starve audio media. Each of KAFM’s deejays has his/her featured genre of music. You can listen to anything from a Grateful Dead show to country music. Good-time rock, blues and new Americana run amuck, all of which provide a smorgasbord of brain stimulation.. Frankly, if you limit your audio choices to Spotify-type data, you don’t listen; it turns out to be background noise (better known as “mush”).

Something you may know: My book reveals how I became an imaginary announcer as a child. Now at the advanced age of 82, I was strongly encouraged to join up and become a volunteer deejay, following a poetry reading from my book in the nearby town of Fruita.

It all started over the last four months after I phoned two of the station’s presiders of sanity while they were on the air, and wouldn’t you know it, one thing led to another. Now I’m scheduled to assemble my first three-hour live show in February.

The station streams over the Internet at https://www.kafmcommunityradio.org. Its nationwide reach also is called streaming, Mama!

That means all my friends and supporters will be able to hear and cheer on my Audible voice and selections of music beyond If I Said That I Would Love You: A Performance Poet’s Journey. Doesn’t this sound like fun? Two professional musicians led me on this path: blues artist extraordinaire Bev Conklin, known for keeping the blues alive in the Lehigh Valley, and Don Slepian, an extraordinary Poconos worldwide touring space-music composer/performer. Thanks, guys!

My air-chair name is going to be: “Mason from Miami.” The show will be called: “Organized Chaos.” Most of the music is from “Grandpa’s Vault.” And it’s in stereo.

Merry Christmas!