Let us begin at the Beginning

Freedom is a road seldom travelled by the multitude.  -Fredrick Douglass

I am a pen with no hand attached.

A series of quotes with no attribution.

Once upon a time I ran the web with my identity in full bloom.  Anyone who wanted to know about me knew all about me.  I blogged and blogged to my hearts content.  I talked about my family, about my friends, where I come from, where I live currently.  I thought I was free.  I  viewed transparency as freedom.

But that would make Frederick Douglass a liar.

Freedom is speaking your heart without fear.  I look back on the 25,000 words that I wrote over the past 18 months and I saw the editing.  I saw a man who chose his words carefully.

On this day, January 15, 2007, the 21st celebration of Matin Luther King Day in the United States,

I emerge from my cocoon protected by a thin veil of anonymity.

That is more for those around me than for me.

I emerge from my cocoon matured in the need and purpose of  my position.

I am unafraid.

I am unencumbered.

I am free.

Today is not the first day of the rest of my life.

TODAY  is the first day of my LIFE