The audience--Oh, mysterious connection!

It's a beautiful spring day here in Pinole, CA. and in a few hours I'm driving to San Francisco to Bird & Becket Books & Records to read. What's the best thing about this experience? The questions and comments from my audience! Who is my audience? Ah, a mystery--and that's the whole adventure today--that's what is really exciting to me. After all, I know what chapters I'm going to read from. I've practiced what I'm going to say in my introduction. I know how my drummer, Josh, is going to punctuate my reading selections with his powerful drumming. I know what the introductory music beforehand will sound like as performed by CWIGGZ, my musical artist son. And I have a good idea of what my reading partner, Susan Alcorn, is going to present. But the communication between me and my audience--that's the real adventure! The mysterious connection!