hello,and welcome to the lighter side of the wall.
"I will not serve that in which I no longer beleive whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."
Stephen Dedalus, from James Joyce's novel A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (1916)
some links to my friends and faves
(dragon will take you to the dark)
(ant will take you to the entrance)