My friend Tom and his friend Eric started hosting a two hour event called the Nature of Gratitude which includes poetry reading, prose reading, music and a theme. This year’s theme was actually “Gratitude,” and the event was last weekend. It was lovely, of course. Always is . . . . It was a packed house! I took some time to go to the used instrument store this past weekend to look at guitars. While there I saw two Dusty Strings folk harps (not pictured), which is where I worked for several years after college in the late 80s and early 90s. Mostly I worked on the hammered dulcimer side of things, doing “post-production” work which involved stringing, tuning and test playing before they…