Sorcha, I think most of us are not living up to those principles...

Kat, alas, you are right....I also discovered that I can still write, that the muse is not dead like I thought for a couple of years or so....I signed up with this beautiful place....I have met wonderful people (in cyberland if not in the flesh), I faced my wounds from the past, and I survived this year when at times I did not think I would. Blessed be.

Nathan