So, one has to start somewhere. My plan is to play around here for a while, learn the blogging rules and ropes, and then *gulp* go public and begin posting GREAT stuff on January First, 2014, which by coincidence is the Capricorn new moon. New beginnings, indeed. Starting to get that feeling of standing at the end of the high diving board, just sort of lightly bouncing, looking down at the water, where everyone else is swimming. They’ve all done the dive and are in the swim. My heart is pounding, my legs are wobbly. It seems so far down, such a big dive. Headfirst?

 Norman Rockwell, “High Dive”