Good Afternoon Community, My name is Darlene and I am a new member of the community. My vision is that it will be a welcoming space for dialogue and ideas and one that I look forward to contributing to. I am an educator and a writer, and not necessarily in that order! Writing has always been many things for me. Most importantly it is my agent of peace. When used with consciousness words are a power source that connects to a myriad of human emotions. I enter this community with a deep affection and a connection to this powerful source and a motivation to gain insight and ideas from its members and the creative language of writing. Darlene