Can you think of someone in your lifetime who has inspired you and changed your perspective and sense of reasoning?

For me it was the great singer Joan Baez. I fell in love with her music in my early teens and her music was like an epiphany it would take pages to describe.

How could any male of my vintage not have fallen irretrievably in love with "St.Joan?" Stunningly beautiful, a true musical virtuosa and everything we believed in during that idealistic era.

Remember, my brothers and sisters of the 60's, "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"

While Ms.Baez and I are not personal friends, we do exchange letters now and then and it makes me happy that at least she knows who I am and how grateful I am that she has made such an impact on my consciousness.