This is very much my own situation.  I really appreciate being welcomed here, and lurk much more than I comment mainly because I know so little that seems useful.  I also value this place because its one of what I hope are many windows to a wider world that we need so desperately here.  So many of us are like Henry Thoreau-well, only in the sense that we have "traveled widely in Concord".

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson