Today is Townzen Thursday

I just wanted to mention my cousin Townzen. A week or so before I was diagnosed w/ cancer, I found out that Townz was diagnosed with Hodkins Lymphoma, a diff type of cancer. He's even younger than me, and truly a fantasic human being. Some of you may have met him at that last Phish show in Coventry (he was the one who left his car and walked all the way, miles, in with only what he could carry after they tried to turn him around because it was too muddy and out of control, and we somehow ran into him in 100K people and he joined the crew for the weekend). That story alone should show what a fighter he his. We have had the luxury of really getting to know Townz these last 5 or 6 yrs up at our lake house in canada (pictured above, us wearing all the rediculous hats that live on the hatrack up there. All are at least a few generations old. And yes, we'd had a few pops when we took this pic) and we've just had a blast going wild up there. Anyway, I just wanted to ask everyone out there to include him in your prayers, too. He's a really special person, the true deifinition of a free spirit, who means the world to us, and he's now starting his chemo treatments.

Townz, if you read this, we're all pulling for you buddy. We can do this. We can beat this awful thing. Stay strong. I love you.