From Hal Josephson:

Everyone:

I've been (re-)reading the e-tributes written to Dana during the past four days and reflecting on his impact on all of our lives. His life work was all about engaging us in new ways, getting us all to think differently and more importantly to emote. I know that everytime I've thought of him since Wednesday, my eyes swell with tears and a big apple appears in my throat.

We first met when he came to Aspen with his roadshow as Ace Space and appeared on GrassRoots TV 12 in 1976. He pulled his van next to our studio and proceeded to tell his early next exit stories with ferver and song. Afterwards, the live audience and the crew hung out in his mobile home oggling Dana's unusual collection of images and things. Everyone knew he was "out there" and everyone secretly and some more overtly wished that they could be "out there" too.

Many years seemed to zoom by, as time will unfold, and we cought up with each other @ various roadside attractions along the way. When we connected in SF in the early 90's, we became closer friends. As an admirer of his art and talent, I tried to support Dana by helping him get to audiences to tell his stories.

In this vein, Dana and Denise first went DownUnder with me in 1995 and Dana performed NextExit as dinner theatre in Adelaide, Australia. I will always remember his nervousness about whether or not the Aussies would resonate with his tales and I will never forget the sight/sound of 600 Aussies leeping to their feet in unison with a long and resounding standing ovation. Denise and Dana went again to this marvelous land DownUnder for a vacation a couple of years ago and I know this visit how much they got to enjoy the many marvels of this wonderfully parallel universe.

I must have heard Dana tell his incredible life stories umpteen times and he never failed to move me with his zest for life and heartfelt storytelling manner. I was always honored to be invited to Crested Butte and DSF to be part of D&D's enthusiastic energy as they shared their Rocky Mtn. home's inspirat ional magnificence with all of us who had stories to tell. We all miss him but his memories and life stories will live on in his archived media and in our hearts and minds.

The world is a better place because of Dana's beliefs and stories and one can ask for no greater tribute other than to be remembered with such profound love.

Thank you Dana. I join all of his friends and mates in grieving his departure from our planet Earth and know that his memory will spark all of us to live from our hearts and drink deeply from the river of possibilities.

May our collective force be with you,

Your media mate

From Bruce Frankel

Denise, Megen, Gillian,

It will take years and years to understand Dana's intricacies and gifts. I am terribly saddened by his passing and can only try to begin to understand the great suffering that you, who saw him constantly, must be feeling at this time. I have known Dana for only 15 years, and only saw him on occassion. Those occassions were always intense, delightful, unforgetable. The testimony to Dana is that time and distance never stood in the way of friendship; dialogues evolved. Everything was an evolution.

I'm terribly saddened, and want to express my deep love and affection to you and for the friend I will miss. Please have Gillie mail me when she is up to it. Let me know what is happening.

Love, Bruce

From Jim Citron

dear denise --

i was very saddened by the news of dana's death. i had been praying for his recovery, and hopeful of it since the last time i'd seen you both....

i truly consider dana to have been my surrogate father, and i believe my meeting him and our subsequent involvement was a form of destiny in this life/body, for both of us....

my personal belief about death is that it is a new beginning, in many ways....

i will miss dana for a long time, and have been thinking about him each day.

i also have been thinking about you, megan, and gillian and wish you serenity and strength in this time of loss....

with love and healing, jim

From Harry Marks

To Dana's friends and fans:

Dana was my best friend - the only real best friend I ever had.

We called ourselves The Digital Geezers and like a lot of people whose lives he touched, I don't know what I'm going to do without him.

A very bright light in my life has gone out.

Harry Marks